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TIL that measles can wipe out the body's immune system "memory" of other diseases for years.

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4X5ZJ TIL that the smallest ‘country’ in the world are actually two buildings with extraterritorial status in Rome represented as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta; the Order has existed for almost a thousand years, they have diplomatic relations with 110 countries and are observers to the UN
ZZRv TIL the numbers 1-9 were designed so that when you counted the number of angles in the number, you would know the value.
EgMeo TIL a Harvard study found that hiring one highly productive ‘toxic worker’ does more damage to a company’s bottom line than employing several less productive, but more cooperative, workers.
98XQ TIL that a British officer, wearing a monocle in Egypt during WW1, was confronted on the parade ground by lines of Australians with pennies in their eyes, threw his monocle up in the air, caught it in his eye, then turned to the parade and roared, ‘All right, you bastards, let’s see you do that.’
0ZL1 TIL that two-thirds of UK teenagers don’t believe in God