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W7YJX TIL Freshwater snails carry a parasitic disease called schistosomiasis, which infects nearly 250 million people, mostly in Asia, Africa and South America. “It's one of the world's most deadly parasites,” says Susanne Sokolow, a disease ecologist at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station
6EP4Q TIL Nestlé once gave mothers in third world nations baby formula which lasted just long enough for their breast milk to run which caused infant deaths due to lack of ability and knowledge to properly prepare the formula
pY0kZ TIL that bats are not blind at all and in fact have eyesight keener than that of most humans
e0594 TIL that an offshoot of Christianity called Manichaeism was popular for a while in Medieval China
d87lZ TIL Dr. Deborah Birx achieved the rank of Colonel in the military