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TIL that in addition to the human microbiome, humans also harbour a 'virome' - a collection of persistent viruses.

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R0V6 TIL that when asked why she had shot 11 people at her school, the shooter, 16-year old Brenda Ann Spencer, replied, “I don’t like Mondays.”
4kV0J TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust
wL7aY TIL wath the Siberian Corridor was. It was a strip of steppe from Mongolia to the east of Europe, used by nomadic population in their movements from east to west. Huns, Turks and Mongols all went through there. The corridor was closed by the Russian Empire expansion toward Siberia.
a8ByJ TIL Jeweled skeletons were found in Rome in 1578 and distributed as replacements to churches because they were thought to be Christian martyrs that had been lost in the Reformation. However, their identities were not known.
yQMb8 TIL a license to sell Star Wars merchandise cost $750,000 dollars. Before the original film had even been released.