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TIL that people with HIV have a longer life expectancy than people with Diabetes.

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0d8jp TIL during the making of "Jurassic Park," the terrifying sounds of the velociraptors were created by recording mating tortoises for their communication barks and using horse and goose sounds for breathing and hissing, respectively.
xVn05 TIL From 1847, Rudolf Wolf started counting sunspots. He peered through a telescope every day, if he could, and recorded the number of spots he observed. Today, all sorts of models use Wolf's sunspot record to predict things like the climate, the orbit of satellites, and the stability of power grids
XEEnE TIL Acetaminaphen not only reduces pain, but reduces empathy for pain as well.
neXmd TIL Protecting the Giant Panda's habitat has the unintended benefit of aiding 70% of the forest bird species, 70% of forest mammals, and 31% of forest amphibians that are endemic to mainland China.
W7G5d TIL about the Mad Gasser of Mattoon, an urban myth from Mattoon Illinois, now thought to be a small 33-person mass hysteria