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TIL thaat the Ebola virus is named after a nearby river Ebola where the first victim was identified in 1976

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nWERd TIL The NFL started using Roman numerals for Super Bowl V in 1971 and then went back and renamed the previous championship games as Super Bowls I, II, III and IV.
947p TIL chewing of the drug Khat is so popular in Yemen that its cultivation accounts for 40% of the desert nation’s water use
JYXOv TIL U-2 Spy planes requires chase cars that can accelerate 0-100mph in a short period of time at both landing and take-off.
6EPx7 TIL: Only two U.S. states have never recorded a temperature above 100 F. One of them is obvious: Alaska. The other one, however, may come as a surprise. It is Hawaii.
eGkD TIL Europeans feared eating tomatoes for 200 years, because when wealthy Europeans using pewter plates, high in lead content, ate tomatoes off the plates, the high acidity in tomatoes would cause the fruit to leach lead from the plate, resulting in many deaths from lead poisoning