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TIL you experience your Billionth (1,000,000,000) second of life during your 31st year

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kOAoe TIL "petface" dogs with puppy-like features have juvenile traits systematically built into their DNA through centuries of rigorous breeding. Many of the same traits that make these dogs "cute" give them a predisposition to respiratory disorders, skin conditions, reproductive issues and eye injuries
WkNOB TIL Wagner-Jauregg (1927) managed to cure syphilis by infecting the patient with malaria. He won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
QNJ0p TIL Voltaire met a married mother of 3, Émilie du Châtelet, 12 years his junior with whom he had an affair with for 16 years. Later, on a visit to Paris, Voltaire took a new lover - his niece, Marie Louise Mignot.
wNVM TIL: In the popular card game “Cards against humanity” if you get the bigger blacker box edition, there is a hidden card in the lid of the box.
p89p TIL the term “suck it” was used almost twice as often in the 1650 as it is now