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TIL that scientists found 18 viruses new to science by sampling 133 New York City rats.

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ANABl TIL Idaho does not require employers to give employees any breaks for any reason.
9QA7 TIL Stephen Sondheim, write of West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, etc. considers the movie “South Park: Bigger, Longer, an Uncut” one of the best MUSICALS of our generation.
rmxy TIL that in 1979, a number of people called in sick with a case of “being homosexual,” in protest of homosexuality being classified as an illness. Within a few months, Sweden joined the few other countries in the world at the time to de-classify homosexuality as an illness.
KOYja TIL Baltimore Oriole groundskeeper, Pat Santerone had a competition with Manager Earl Weaver to see who could grow bigger tomatoes. They grew the tomatoes in a plot near the left field foul line.
wo5EM TIL: In Australia there are 'Firehawks', which are birds that intentionally set forest fires as a hunting technique