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TIL in 1996 One strain of Yersinia pestis or "The Black Death" were found completely drug-resistant.

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loGj7 TIL Peter Sellers' estranged wife inherited his fortune upon his death, his children got only 800 Pounds each. She refused to increase the amount even after a mutual acquaintance intervened. Incidentally, Sellers' son died 26 years to the day after his father, from the same cause (heart attack).
XEWoX TIL Fidel Castro was obsessed with Cow Genetics and Breeding. In 1982, he successfully bred Ubre Blanca, who broke the world record for most milk produced in one day. When the cow died in 1985, the State Media published a front page obituary and the postal service issued stamps in her honor.
pYY08 TIL beetles make up roughly 25% of all life on planet earth
l6Qr TIL that the number of Chinese causalities killed by the Japanese far outnumbered the Jews killed in the holocaust
MGra TIL of the “Technocracy movement”, a 1930s political movement that wanted to replace all politicians and businesspeople with scientists and engineers.