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TIL that ~8 billion people are estimated to have latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), meaning they carry the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria without exhibiting active disease symptoms (~25% of the worlds population)

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nW6D7 TIL that Leonard Nemoy directed "Three Men and A Baby".
waeP TIL Lacrosse, as originally played by Native Americans, fielded teams from 100 to 1,000 men, with goals 500 yards to 6 miles apart, with games lasting several days, played sunup to sundown. These games tended to become huge mobs of players swarming the ball and slowly moving it across the field.
aV60 TIL that dietary imbalances are a far greater cause of cancer than chemical exposure
EGp7 TIL Japan successfully landed an unmanned spacecraft on an asteroid, collected samples in 2005. The probe returned to earth in 2010.
1ara7 TIL that camels eat cactus, they have adapted to harsh desert conditions that require them to eat thorny plants