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TIL - Over 90% of people who were diagnosed allergic to penicillin as children will lose this allergy over a 10 year period. A test can confirm this and open up more drugs to you for treatment

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LkRBr TIL of the Bulwer-Lyton fiction contest, in which entrants are invited "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels"
dlMZ TIL rogue crime-lab scientist Annie Dookhan compromised as many as 40,000 cases with her mishandling of evidence and perjurious testimony; she received a 3-5 year jail sentence.
eMdk TIL Alexander Graham Bell committed a social faux pas when he unintentionally touched Queen Victoria’s hand when he demonstrated the telephone for her. Others in the audience gasped in horror but the Queen only noted how impressed she was with the telephone
rNAX0 TIL about the US WWII unit known as the “Ghost Army,” a tactical deception unit made of ~1000 soldiers. They used visual, sonic, and radio deception to fool German forces into thinking they had 30,000 soldiers with them.
W7YX TIL the name Duke Nukem belonged to a Cpt. Planet villian first (see EcoVillians)