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TIL about Watermelon Mosaic Virus spread by aphids looks like someone carved crop circles on a watermelon

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awlRb TIL that songwriter Robert Sherman was struggling to write a catchy song for Julie Andrews to sing in Mary Poppins. When Robert's son received the polio inoculation, and he discovered the medicine was put on a sugar cube, he was inspired to write "A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down."
AD5g TIL that Tool have a track called “Eggs of Satan”, written entirely in German and is actually a recipe for cookies.
kJ7BE TIL about "Virus: The Game", a 1997 video game in which players fight enemies within their own computer (the player's files and directories are represented by 3D rooms). Its advertising campaign involved a downloadable .exe file that simulated the deletion of Windows system files.
N7mn8 TIL bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, can communicate with each other and coordinate attacks. They produce a chemical called Arbitrium which signals to other phages that a host has been infected.
dDaDZ TIL about John Cummings; a man who swallowed 35 knives over the course of 6 years, the first time was to prove to people that he could, and each time afterwards was to prove it to people who didn't believe him, he eventually died from the effects of this in 1809