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TIL that if you contract and recover from the measles you have a 1/600 chance as a baby or 1/10000 chance that after 6-15 years you can suffer a condition that causes brain inflammation that is terminal.

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W4Zo TIL Grapefruits can actually increase the potency of drugs. So much so that 85 different drugs have been identified as having adverse effects if consumed with grapefruit.
aw7yZ TIL that over 90% of the ocean's plastic waste comes from just 10 rivers, 8 of which are in Asia, and 2 of which are in Africa.
81R8 TIL when Emperor Justinian II was dethroned, his nose was cut off and he was sent to live in Crimea. 10 years later, he returned to Constantinople with an entire Bulgar army of 15,000 men to retake the throne. He beheaded the two Emperors that ruled while he was absent, now wearing a golden nose.
YBLx TIL Stanley Kubrick told journalists to pronounce the “2001” in “2001: A Space Odyssey” as “two thousand and one” in the hope that the movie would influence the pronunciation of that year.
M7o5V TIL that the Alyeska (Trans-Alaska) Pipeline was built 11 mi (~18 km) "too long" to account for the fact that yearly temperatures in Alaska have a ~150 F (~65 C) range, which causes the pipeline to grow and shrink in length by up to 5 mi (~8 km).