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TIL estimated 100 trillion microorganisms representing (500 different species) inhabit every normal, healthy person.

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EmRX TIL That during the early stages of filming Happy Days, Fonzie was not allowed to wear his iconic leather jacket unless he was in close proximity to his bike. This was because the censors said it made him look like a ‘hoodlum’. It was replaced by a white windbreaker.
4Vya TIL after writing several scathing editorials about a scientist’s “ridiculous” claim that the moon could be reached with rockets, the New York Times published a correction…three days before the moon landing in 1969.
R5g8j TIL Coors Brewing survived prohibition, in part, from selling malted milk to Mars candy company. And producing Manna a near beer.
X4DR TIL that listening to music which we have an emotional attachment to, the body releases dopamine, resulting in goosebumps, or “chills.” The stronger the attachment, the more dopamine that is produced.
gMVQX TIL Julia Louis-Dreyfus made her film debut in a movie about a kid named Harry Potter who discovers he lives in a world of witches and wizards. Julia Louis-Dreyfus played a nymph.