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TIL The reason zombies on The Walking Dead Aren’t called zombies is that it’s an alternate universe where zombie fiction never existed

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nejZb TIL Australian doctor Barry Marshall was mocked by physicians of his time when he hypothesized that the bacterial species H. pylori can cause stomach ulcers. To prove his hypothesis, he drank cultured H. pylori and developed stomach ulcers as a result. He later received the Nobel Prize in 2005.
GY7GG TIL, that in 1917, British forces were not ready for a head on assault of Jerusalem, so British intelligence created a plan where cigarettes would be air dropped by recon planes for the Ottomans everyday up until the day of the assault, where they instead dosed all the cigarettes with opium.
b6mo7 TIL that ~10% of the population has an extra vertebra in their spinal column. It's adjacent to the tailbone and can be a cause of lower back pain and decrease in flexibility. Most people with it experience no symptoms, however.
xVKAw TIL: That tea drinking is declining in Britain while rising in the US
VM4Ep TIL Jeff Bezos is building a 10,000-Year Clock in a mountain in Texas.