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TIL that having a high temperature isn’t necessarily a fever; it is only a fever if caused by cytokine activation

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kO4o7 TIL Steven Spielberg resented his father for divorcing his mom which influenced his early works of ET and Close Encounters. But later Steven found out his mom cheated on his dad and so he made father/son reconciliation a theme in Catch Me If You Can and Lincoln.
4kDAo TIL about the Franklin Athletic Club, from Franklin, PA, who won the World Series of Football in 1903, without giving up a score the entire season
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