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TIL an egg yolk is a single cell
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TIL Freshwater snails carry a parasitic disease called schistosomiasis, which infects nearly 250 million people, mostly in Asia, Africa and South America. βIt's one of the world's most deadly parasites,β says Susanne Sokolow, a disease ecologist at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station
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TIL The video for Welcome to The Jungle by Guns N'Roses was originally banned by MTV. It took the influence by David Geffen to get it aired for just one time at 4AM EST Sunday. The response was so overwhelming it shutdown MTV's switchboard.Appetite For Destruction went on to sell 30 million copies.
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TIL When Will Lee, who played Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street, died in 1982, the show had an episode where Mr. Hooper died. The writers extensively researched how to teach young kids about death. The episode aired on Thanksgiving 1983 so parents were home to discuss it with their kids. It never reran.
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TIL Homosexuality was still classified as an illness in 1979. Swedes protested by calling in sick to work,claiming they felt gay.
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TIL of the Kolyma Highway. A 1200+ mile long modern road in Russia that an estimated quarter of a million people died building. Because of permafrost, interment into the fabric of the road was deemed more practical than burying the bodies in new holes, resulting in the nickname The Road of Bones.