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TIL Shrimp Hearts Are in Their Heads

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6pl TIL that survivors of the Black Death may have passed on a gene mutation that produces resistance to HIV.
LQdom TIL "Nuclear Gandhi", a glitch in the video game Civilization which makes the typically peaceful leader Gandhi aggressively use nuclear weapons, is a myth. There's no evidence such a glitch exists in the game, and several of the game's creators have stated that it's impossible for it to happen.
kJkWe TIL 40% of Americans trace their ancestry through Ellis Island.
oRvM7 TIL that between 1998 and 2015, the Defense and Housing and Urban Development departments had reported $21 trillion in "unsupported adjustments". That is, $21 trillion missing in tax payer money; They cannot track it, nor do they know what it was spent on. That's 65,000 lost dollars per American.
5Vlpr TIL of Hank the Tank, a black bear accused of breaking into over two dozen Lake Tahoe homes and threatened with euthanasia before later being exonerated by DNA evidence.