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TIL the song “Deep in the Heart of Texas was banned by BBC "during working hours "on the grounds that its infectious melody might cause wartime factory-hands to neglect their tools while they clapped in time with the song.”

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eo0b TIL that 10% of Europeans are immune to HIV/AIDS because their CCR5-delta 32 has mutated preventing the virus from entering the cells of the immune system.
W79ZN TIL because of the continuing ongoing dispute between Canada & USA over the Machias Seal Island, anyone who is born on it is given the claim of dual citizenship of both countries.
R7PO8 TIL that Sarah Hyland, of Modern Family fame, was diagnosed with kidney dysplasia when she was young, received two kidney transplants from her father and her brother and has undergone 16 surgeries, even during the shooting of Modern Family
6EAEw TIL humans domesticated a mold thousands of years ago (Aspergillus oryzae.) It produces soy sauce, miso, sake, amazake, among other savory things.
Z8mAv TIL that Harper Lee’s friends gave her a full year’s salary for Christmas in 1956 so that she would be able to take a year off from work to write. Lee used that time to write “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which has since sold over 40 million copies.