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TIL that you can contract Leprosy from armadillos

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xVyb TIL a graduate student mistook two unproved theorems in statistics that his professor wrote on the chalkboard for a homework assignment. He solved both within a few days.
9K1m TIL 118 people were charged after 9/11 with looting hundreds of thousands of dollars from ATMs when a computer failure caused by the collapse of the World Trade Center allowed unlimited access to money
PYAWL TIL that 1 in every 18 people have a third nipple.
99dm TIL Glasgow Ice Cream Wars were turf wars in Scotland in 1980 between rival criminal Organisations selling drugs and stolen goods in ice cream vans.
8e1xK TIL By tradition, character deaths in ancient greek theater almost never happened on stage. No matter the importance of the character, deaths almost always occured off stage and announced via messenger, with the body only showed later