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TIL scientists think there is a link between our improved sanitary habits and the increase in allergies and auto-immune disorders because our immune systems are looking for something to fight.

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VMD5G TIL about Wendell Fertig, a US serviceman who rather than surrender with the bulk of US forces during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, “self-promoted” himself to Brigadier General and organized pockets of Filipino fighters and other US serviceman into a highly effective Guerilla force
4XgMw TIL during the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens fouled his first two attempts at long jump, but before the final attempt his Nazi rival, Luz Long, gave him some friendly advice that helped Owens qualify and win gold
JXAv TIL Eating meat and cooking food is how humans got their big brains
BgYaW TIL Theodore John Kaczynski (UNABOMBER and Author of Industrial Society and Its Future) wrote and published three additional books, and a short story, while incarcerated at ADX Florence. Each of these books expanded on anti-technology sentiment of his manifesto and his new concerns for the future.
PYe4Z A single atom is visible to the naked eye in this stunning photo.