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TIL The first virophage was discovered in a cooling tower in Paris in 2008

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GYXLG TIL there was concern that red headed people with blue eyes were going extinct because only around 17% of people have blue eyes, and 1-2% have red hair -- the odds of having both traits is around 0.17%.
D1JxJ TIL the term c-note originated in the 1930s taken from the Roman numeral C (for 100)
ne1Wb TIL That Susan Bennett, the voice of Siri, also was the voice of many other things such as the voice of the public address system at Delta Airlines, or for television advertisements for many major companies like Ford, McDonald's, and the Home Depot.
am89 TIL Argentina sent a pregnant woman to Antarctica, had her give birth there, and used the baby to reinforce its territorial claims
epQRg TIL about the Eliza Armstrong case where journalist W.T. Stead bought a 13-year-old girl to expose sexual slavery in Victorian England. His reports helped pass the 1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act raising the age of consent from 13 to 16, but Stead was jailed three months for abduction.