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TIL of "boosting", where disabled athletes with spinal cord injuries can boost their performance by deliberately breaking one of their toes

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X0e7R TIL that in the 1970s and 1980s more than 4,600 hemophiliacs contracted HIV or hepatitis C after being infected by contaminated blood-clotting products.
awRvo TIL That a woman experienced a Brazil Nut allergy after the allergen was passed to her from her partner's semen during intercourse. The researchers believe this to be the first case of a sexually transmitted allergic reaction.
plYZ TIL of Lagrange Points 4,5: special spots in space in which any object placed there will remain locked there forever
7jOx TIL for Donald Ducks’s 50th birthday, Walt Disney World hatched 50 Peking ducks in front of Donald Duck, so they would think he is their “mother” and follow him around for a birthday celebration parade.
W7jdA TIL San Francisco Zoo & Gardens was once the site of the world’s largest swimming pool - so large that lifeguards used wooden row boats to make their way across — and was also used by the military for drills and exercises