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TIL: Some strains of viruses have viruses of their own

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OGbMR TIL Tuberculosis is listed as the oldest contagious disease to affect humans by the Guinness World Records
XEgG6 TIL that the name "battery" was first used by Benjamin Franklin in his experiments with Leyden Jars (early electrostatic capacitors) and originally only meant "a group of two or more" borrowing the term from artillery batteries.
R59E8 TIL During the Napoleonic Wars French cavalry developed a technique called Sabrage, which is opening a champagne bottle with a saber. The wielder slides the saber along the body seam of the bottle to the lip to break the top of the neck away.
kZRW TIL that John Cena holds the record for most wishes granted by a single person (Make-A-Wish Foundation)
Ypv1B TIL when Boeing fired over 70,000 employees in Seattle during the 1970s Boeing Bust, a billboard was placed on the highway leaving Seattle stating: “Will the last person leaving Seattle turn out the lights.”