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TIL rage comics are used to teach English to foreigners due to their simplicity and easy to understand expressions.

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QNa7X TIL Rome established medical licenses for highly trained physicians in the year 202 and they prevented medical students from going to brothels.
0wRJy TIL that since the inception of Forbes “400 Richest Americans” list in 1982, only one man from said list has ever been convicted of murder: philanthropist and wrestling coach, John du Pont.
oBpy7 TIL Joseph Kony (KONY 2012) has been living in Kafia Kingi and his soldiers, including his sons, sell honey at the local markets
9w6a7 TIL there is a type 3 diabetes that is severely under-diagnosed. It is linked to problems with the pancreas specifically.
YjnP TIL that the bacteria used to ripen cheese, Brevibacterium, is the same bacteria found under toenails. This is what causes (dirty) toenails to smell similar to cheese