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TIL that "ringworm" is a fungal infection and no actual worms are involved

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gRJX TIL that a Pizza Hut manager during the Joplin tornado saved many lives by herding customers into a walk in freezer and bungee cording his arm to the freezer door before being sucked into the tornado and killed.
0yDN TIL that in 2004 Google anonymously posted math equations on billboards in Harvard Square and Silicon Valley that if solved led to a website with another equation, which in turn allowed you to submit your resume.
R5m8a TIL of an epic April Fool’s prank by BBC in 1957 - a 3 minute broadcast around a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from a "spaghetti tree".
Wm8X TIL A couple adopted a chimpanzee and which learned to open doors, use keys, get dresses, water the plants, feed the horses, use a computer and drive their car too. But when he was 14 yrs old, he brutally attacked a family friend totally disfiguring her.
Y7YmW TIL Philippa Schuyler was raised as a hybrid experiment by her parents to test if interracial kids could create a superior race. She had an IQ of 185, could read and write by age 2, and was a world-famous pianist by 8. Despite her genius, she struggled with her identity and died at 35 in Vietnam.