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TIL that intense working out is bad for your immune system

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yQJM TIL in 1859 the largest known geomagnetic storm caused aurora over the Caribbean and telegraphs could operate without a power source
5VxxR TIL To get a car stuck in sand out, dont dig the sand, pour about a litre of water around stuck tires, wait a minute and the wet sand will add enough traction to get out with ease. No pushing or digging and very little effort. Extremely helpful at the beach or desert
R5b94 TIL that the 1918 Flu was definitively connected to Influenza virus using a remarkably preserved body in Alaska, that still had remnants of Flu RNA which was sequenced and recreated.
rRJ14 TIL Carbon-dated around the early 15th century, the Voynich manuscript is written in an untranslatable language. Studied by many professional and amateur cryptographers, the manuscript has never been demonstrably deciphered and claims that it has been decoded have never been independently verified.
w0N8 TIL the Nazi’s used special buses that had their exhaust fed into the passenger compartment where they transported mentally disabled people in order to kill them.