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TIL that doctors have "estimated that up to one-third of the world's population is infected with M. tuberculosis". Most of these infections are asymptomatic and do not cause or spread disease, but the bacteria can spontaneously reactivate at any time leading to new outbreaks.

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woP81 TIL, that after Captain James Cook's death by Hawaiian natives during his third voyage, a theatrical production of his voyage opened in Paris, and later London. The "grand serious pantomimic ballet", set on ‘The Island of O-Why-e in the South Sea’, had little resemblance to any actual event.
m18ZE TIL about Spiro Mounds, a pre-European North American city where so much well preserved treasure was found it was called "an American King Tut's Tomb" It was bought by a mining company for $100, looted, mined, and blown up by dynamite.
PYxBe TIL When a male penguin falls in love with a female penguin, he searches the entire beach to find the perfect pebble to present to her
NY6b TIL the SR-71 Blackbird outran nearly 4000 missiles fired at it during its service life
yVl4a TIL the movie Cleopatra cost $350 million adjusted for inflation to make, 3 times higher than Ben Hur. Due to its cost it was considered a box office bomb despite being highest grossing film of 1963.