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TIL Mirror life’s potential to escape immune defenses and invade natural ecosystems might lead to pervasive lethal infections in a substantial fraction of plant and animal species, including humans.

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Jyrm TIL There was a Dinosaur with Four Wings
ZmMY TIL that a 1920s anti-catholic mob, led by the Klan, became convinced the pope was on a train in Indiana. A corset salesman spent half an hour convincing the mob he wasn’t the pope in disguise.
nemyd TIL The US awarded the Sioux $102 million for taking their land to build Mount Rushmore. But the Sioux didn’t want the money; they wanted their land back. The money has sat in trust accounts, accumulating interest. Today about $1 billion waits untouched in accounts at the Department of the Treasury.
oRr0R TIL The Muppet Show was filmed entirely in England because US networks rejected it.
EL8x TIL the 31st Vice President of the United States, Charles Curtis, had considerable Native American ancestry and even spoke Kansa, the native tongue of the Kaw tribe.