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TIL Courage the Cowardly Dog was nominated for an Oscar

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R5b94 TIL that the 1918 Flu was definitively connected to Influenza virus using a remarkably preserved body in Alaska, that still had remnants of Flu RNA which was sequenced and recreated.
dl7E TIL that in 1972 a 1.7 billion year old nuclear reactor was discovered in Africa
EpDx TIL that the opposite of paranoia is called Pronoia - believing in the existence of a conspiracy to help the person.