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TIL: The first new antibiotic in 30 years has been discovered.

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4koJa TIL about Wind Phones: unconnected telephone booths world-wide where people can hold conversations with deceased loved ones.
wNVP TIL Charles Darwin’s cousin invented the dog whistle, meteorology, forensic fingerprinting, mathematical correlation, the concept of “eugenics” and “nature vs nurture”, and the concept of inherited intelligence, with an estimated IQ of 200.
dvo8 TIL in 1999 the family of MLK filed a wrongful death suit claiming James Earl Ray was innocent and a government conspiracy assassinated King. The jury came out in agreement with the King family, finding that there was a conspiracy.
WyZo TIL Thanksgiving was moved in 1939 to the second-to-last Thursday (from the last Thursday) in November by FDR at the request of the president of Macy’s, to increase the number of shopping days before Christmas.
Lk7MQ TIL 2% is 50% (milk)