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TIL that the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has 40,000 legally dead people who are still alive.

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ne8MB TIL about Mary Mallon, an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid, who spread it in New York city in the 1900s. Dr. George Soper discovered every establishment she worked in as a cook had an outbreak of typhoid and warned her to wash her hands but she ignored him and continued to spread it all over the city
EgxwW TIL the editors of prominent science journal Nature originally rejected the first research paper demonstrating MRI because the pictures were too fuzzy.
W7Mlo TIL that "Master" is an honorific used to address boys that are too young to be called "Mister".
Oo6k1 TIL that Whitesnake changed the word "hobo" to "drifter" in the re-recording of "Here I Go Again" to ensure that it would not be misheard as "homo".
mxYNE TIL that the fig tree is pollinated by the fig wasp which then dies inside the fruit. The offspring then mate inside and the females escape to pollinate the next fig.