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TIL When the core body temperature inside the nose drops by 5C, our immune system cannot fight the viruses as well

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O5GY TIL: Due to differences in calendars, it is currently 2070 in Nepal and 2006 in Ethiopia.
0QkN TIL the False Positive Paradox describes a situation where a “highly accurate” test is worthless if the testing condition is rare enough. Example: If 10 people in a city of 20 million are “bad guys” and a surveillance program identifies them with 99% accuracy, then 99.995% of positives will be false
R5lgl TIL: Amelia Dyer, the "Ogress of Reading", likely killed 200-400 children while running a "baby farm" in the 1800s.
691Ow TIL, Ohio was the birthplace of the first people to fly in a plane, the first man on the moon, and 24 astronauts
4X85g TIL that rubbing your eyes mechanically excites visual receptors in your eye that perceive light, which is why you see spots after