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TIL common ornamental and invasive (in USA) plant, Japan barberry, is associated with higher tick populations, with plant removal considered a strategy for Lyme management.

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v1gr8 TIL that under the small French village of Naours there was an underground city where at its height 3000 people lived. Originally a quarry in Roman times the site started to be used individuals to hide from invaders/raiders. It was during the Thirty Year war the community reached its height. There w
LgwV TIL That Canada has the 6th largest air force in the Americas, behind the US Airforce, the US Navy, the US Army, the US Marine Corps, and the Brazillian Air Force
nn07 TIL the youngest person to graduate with a bachelor’s degree was Michael Kearney, at the age of 10.
rRK5M TIL Humans don't have strong olfactory skills and kissing allows you to smell and taste a person and see if you have different immune responses as we tend to feel more attracted to someone with a different immune response
OGbEY TIL that grapefruit juice can interact in unpredictable ways with many drugs. This can occur even when eaten few days before taking the drugs due to the irreversal blocking of critical enzymes needed to metabolize the drug. Other fruits like citrus, apple and pomegranate have similar issues.