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TIL: Beer Consumption Increases Human Attractiveness to Malaria Mosquitoes

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yQvYa TIL Robert Leonard the original bassist for the band 'Sha Na Na', after proofreading the band's contracts, realized he had a knack for critically examining language. He returned to school, received his M.A., MPhil, and PhD from Columbia University and now works as a forensic linguist.
YQOG TIL that in the 16th century, Christians called the Anabaptists did not partake in infant baptism, instead believing that only free-willed adults could decide for themselves to be baptized. They were persecuted and killed.
w1l6 TIL King James IV put twin babies on an island to see if the children would speak the language of Eden. Children developed a communication method but the experiment failed because no one else knew what language of Eden sounded like.
yVBbl TIL that osteo-odonto keratoprosthesis (OOKP) is a procedure that uses a patient’s own tooth implanted in their eye to craft a support structure for an artificial cornea to restore vision.
6ErD8 TIL that Spider webs were used as bandages in ancient times.