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TIL that Lone Star ticks can give you meat allergy.

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JJrV TIL that in a simulated, long-term, multinational space mission, Russian Cosmonauts sexually assaulted women, routinely broke into fist-fights.
4XKL6 TIL Sleep deprivation has opposite effects in healthy people and those with depression. If you’re healthy and you don’t sleep, you’ll feel in a bad mood. But if you’re depressed, it can prompt an immediate improvement in mood, and in cognitive abilities. This is the basis of Wake Therapy
R5lZ9 TIL The root cause of transient motion-related illnesses (e.g., seasickness, carsickness), especially why some people seem to be inherently immune, is not fully understood.
ekwL TIL In 2000 Sony invented a movie critic by the name of David Manning and used his fictional quotes to promote movies. Sony ended up paying over $1.5m to moviegoers in a class action lawsuit and over $300,000 to the state of Connecticut where Manning supposedly worked at a small weekly paper.
dDvmQ TIL that in 1885 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers used 300,000 pounds of explosives to annihilate Flood Rock island in New York City's East River as part of clearing Hell Gate for safer navigation. It's been described as "the largest planned explosion before testing began for the atomic bomb".