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TIL Tuberculosis is listed as the oldest contagious disease to affect humans by the Guinness World Records

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NXdGN TIL Sloth babies usually survive if they lose their grip on their mom and fall but sometimes, the mother sloth doesn’t want to go on the ground to pick the baby up because she'd risk being seen by predators.
xVAw1 TIL the movie 'Seven Pounds' about a man (Will Smith) giving the gift of life to seven strangers, foregone the usual Hollywood premiere and instead chose Cleveland, Miami, Dallas, St. Louis, and Denver to premiere the film to raise funds for food banks in each region.
VpWD TIL there exists a series titled “Manga Bible,” an adaptation of the Christian Bible in manga form.
OGbo6 TIL that dictators have followed the same playbook for hundreds of years. And that the U.S. is technically under a coup. Great.
6p5Z TIL: If an Elephant had the same Metabolic Rate as a Shrew it would quickly Overheat and Explode