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TIL People with social anxiety disorder have a different gut microbiome - transplanting their microbiome to mice causes the mice to suffer from increased social fear

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Wk6m9 TIL that during World War I, French prostitutes with severe cases of syphilis charged higher rates than uninfected prostitutes, because soldiers infected with syphilis were removed from the front line
M76Bb TIL that despite a persistent popular myth, the Great Wall of China is NOT visible from space with the naked eye, a fact confirmed by astronauts.
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ne6JY TIL that three presidents, all Founding Fathers: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe, died on July 4. Presidents Adams and Jefferson also died the same year, 1826; President Monroe died in 1831.