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TIL Hepatitis C is the most common cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer. From it's discovery in 1989, it took less than 25 years to identify, model and create an oral treatment that can completely cure a person in 8-12 weeks. 1-2% of the world population has HepC. Most don't even know it.

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E5BX TIL the higher your testable IQ, the less likely you are to develop schizophrenia.
698Om TIL the Music Group Jethro Thull was named after a Eighteen Century British Agriculturist who invented the seed drill
QNLVX TIL Ulysses S. Grant personally disliked Napoleon, Napoleon III (he disliked him the most), and the Bonaparte family in general
D1E7j TIL that Sister Josephine Rosenthal was the first ever recorded possessed nun, and the front portion of her face and skull were mummified!
8a808 TIL in 1950 over 1 million French citizens were native speakers of a Celtic language called Breton, today there are less than 250,000. The language is isolated to the Brittany peninsula in Northwest France.