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Today I learned about the 20 year old Belgian man who died from eating 5 day old spaghetti.

Read more ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

via reddit.com

Oob0Y TIL that Phytoplanktons are the lungs of our mother Earth producing about 2/3rd of the Earth's atmospheric oxygen.
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dDkn9 TIL a Japanese submarine used to attack Sydney Australia was later painted yellow by college students inspired by the Beatles song
Z8vNB TIL Sigmund Freud, who has such profound affect on finding the cause and cure of mental illness, was addicted to cocaine and died because of smoking
GAmB7 TIL that Svante Pääbo mapped the DNA of Neanderthals and won the Nobel price. During his attempts, the first DNA sequences obtained came from himself. This helped him understand that contamination was a major problem and allowed him to refine the process and succeed