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TIL that a mild fever can actually be helpful - it’s your body’s way of trying to kill the virus/bacteria that’s infecting you by heat

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Oa6Y TIL 3 pacifists (all over age of 57) breached the defenses of a site that houses 100 tons of nuclear material, to paint antiwar slogans on buildings. The lapse in security at what is “supposed to be one of the world’s most secure facilities” was described by Steven Chu as “deeply troubling.”
W74Y TIL Youporn accounts for about 2% of total daily internet traffic
J1PgQ TIL the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz" initially lost money at the box office. It wasn't until a rerelease in 1949 that its studio finally earned a profit on the film.
gr6B8 TIL: India has a payment system that is fast, small shopkeepers to large corporations use it and is replacing cash, called the UPI.
W76OY TIL that the earliest refutation of UFOs was written in the 9th century by Agobard of Lyon, who wrote against the claims of peasants that ‘sky sailors’ were coming to steal their crops in his treatise ‘On Hail and Thunder’