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TIL that Kenny, of South Park, has died a total of 97 times.

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QNbAM TIL that in 1900, a physician named Jesse William Lazear wanted to prove that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes. He allowed an infected mosquito to bite him, and he became infected with yellow fever, proving his hypothesis correct. He died 17 days later.
w0g7 TIL that Microsoft used to offer an IRC-based chat software that visually represented chats as sequences of comic panels and looked for cues in the text to help determine the comic character’s gestures and expressions.
ANmkl TIL that researchers have developed a new blood test that can predict if someone will develop Alzheimer's disease up to 16 years before symptoms appear
K9E4 TIL Children’s books have 50% more rare words in them than does an average showing of adult prime-time television
yV0WJ TIL: That a 63-year-old man attempted a cheese heist worth $389,000.