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TIL An influenza pandemic took place in 1957-58 with outbreaks throughout the world with at least 1 million fatalities

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nWJZ9 TIL that Pope Paul II supposedly died from indigestion caused by eating melon in excess, or by being sodomised by a page boy
7MM7 TIL cocaine addiction treatment is 7 times more effective in reducing cocaine consumption than law enforcement.
N0Jb TIL: Google successfully tested an automated car that drove 300,000 miles with only one accident, a parking lot fender bender. That occurred when a human was driving.
vPZA8 TIL In Japan, by law, a workday becomes an additional holiday, also known as a "citizen's holiday," if the workday falls between two holidays.
OoyLe TIL there is a word for the study of culturally induced ignorance: Agnatology. Culturally induced ignorance can come from media neglect or deliberate misrepresentation; Corporate and government manipulation, secrecy, suppression, document destruction, selectivity, inattention, & forgetfulness.