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TIL the CDC issued a report outlining the very real likelihood of an impending untreatable gonorrhea epidemic.

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P4eG TIL John Williams subtly put the Imperial March into Anakin’s Theme from Episode I, foreshadowing his turn to the Dark Side.
gMyrA TIL about Italian serial killer Leonarda Cianciulli, who chopped up her victims with an axe and turned them into soap and tea cakes
D1rEV TIL that Southern live oak was a secret weapon of the USS Constitution, one of America's first naval vessels, that was nicknamed "Old Ironsides" after so many cannonballs bounced off her hull because live oak wood is a super dense wood.
E1lgx TIL about Hideki Okamoto who became Karate teacher for Syrian government after using Karate to resist capture by armed security for nearly an hour while inebriated
WkY1N TIL The Battle of the Somme ended with roughly 420,000 British, 200,000 French, and 500,000 German casualties, the result of the 141-day battle was the British frontline moving just 6 miles into German territory.