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TIL that strep throat, scarlet fever, and rheumatic fever are all caused by the same bacteria, Streptococcus pyogenes.

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JYZRQ TIL Coffee Comes From a Fruit
5ABk TIL that when Halle Berry won the Razzie for worst actress for her role in Catwoman, she said “First of all, I want to thank Warner Brothers. Thank you for putting me in a piece of shit, god-awful movie… It was just what my career needed.” while holding an oscar she just won for Monster Ball
BrPnW TIL in 1963 Italian engineers underestimated the effects of a controlled landslide they’d planned, resulting in a shockwave 2x the intensity of Hiroshima, instantly pulverizing thousands of people & causing a 820ft tsunami to travel down a mountain, turning the town beneath to a “large muddy crater”
OGaxR TIL that all hippopotamus in Colombia are descendants of hippopotamus brought in by Pablo Escobar, with their numbers ranging from 80 to 100s in Colombia.
Lk7gp TIL that researchers hypothesize that women were primarily responsible for the ceramics in at least one significant era of ancient Greek history