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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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NXpwN TIL Cava is a sparkling wine uniquely from Spain the same way Champagne comes from France and Prosecco from Italy
oRPMW TIL that an attempt was made to blackmail The Duke Of Wellington, by threatening to reveal his love affair with a prostitute in a book. Wellington just told them to go ahead and publish it.
9K56 TIL that the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow is 25 mph or 40 km/h.
xVNxo TIL A German u-boat was sunk by it's own toilet in WW2
v1nBj TIL that while Icelanders usually have last names consisting of -son (son) or -dóttir (daughter) suffixed to their father's given name, non-binary Icelanders are now allowed to have gender-neutral last names using the suffix -bur (child) instead.