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TIL measles resets your immune system leaving you more vulnerable to disease you had immunity to

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mxwXp TIL that in UK sign language, the sign for Scotland is bagpipes, which is a sound a deaf person wouldn't hear. I got this because I watched a briefing from 10 Downing Street.
16xLD TIL that Paul Winchell, the guy who voiced Mr. Owl on the Tootsie Pop commercials, Tigger from Winnie the Poo, and Gargamel from the Smurfs, also invented the artificial heart.
E0W7 TIL Kim Jong-il, according to North Korean media, didn’t need to urinate or defecate. Just one of many amazing traits he reportedly had.
e8Kk TIL that the reason so many traditional legal terms come in pairs (aid and abet, null and void, part and parcel, will and testament) is that old English courts used English terms along with Latin or French terms to avoid confusion.
lopOK TIL in 2001 there was a You Don't Know Jack TV Show on ABC hosted by Paul Reubens. The show only lasted 6 episodes.