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TIL An alligator’s immune system can fight HIV.

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lo06r TIL Irish people drink more tea than the British. And while India and China produce most of the world's tea, neither of them is in the top 10 tea drinking countries.
wopd7 TIL President Andrew Jackson accused President Adams's administration of corruption, leading to investigations into all executive departments. This uncovered $280,000 stolen from the Treasury, as well as improved government accounting and cost savings for the Navy.
Bg0kr TIL that the Radio City Rockettes didn’t allow Black dancers in until 1987, claiming that their skin tone would distract from the group’s consistent look.
BgwXd TIL the first documented case of babies being switched at birth in NHS history
8KJa TIL Emperor I Ferdinand of Austria had 20 seizures per day, and could not speak coherently. The only intelligible sentence he ever spoke during his 13 year reign was: “I am the emperor, and I want dumplings!”