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TIL that Deficiency of Vitamin D worsens Respiratory Tract Infections. This is thought to be one of the reasons why there are fewer Flu cases in the summer.

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R7YAa TIL: There is a Japanese cafe is staffed by robot waiters controlled remotely by paralysed people.
D7rY TIL green bell peppers are just unripe red bell peppers
kO9Xm TIL that a butcher in Vienna, Austria made Sausages he learnt in Frankfurt, Germany, changing the recipe slightly and called them "Frankfurter". It got so famous that the world (including Germany) calls them Wiener now apart from the people in Austria who call it Frankfurter.
5V7G8 TIL in the 1970s hysteria over the arrival of killer bees in the United States created a genre of "killer bee movies". One of the most well-known movies was the 1978 film "The Swarm", directed by Irwin Allen and starring Michael Caine. It scored 9% at Rotten Tomatoes.
x74D TIL: There’s a mysterious object called the “Great Attractor” that’s pulling on every object within hundreds of millions of light years.