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TIL American rapper, Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr, got his “Snoop Dogg” nickname from his mother because she thought he looked like Snoopy from the Peanuts cartoon.

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ANaJg TIL that when epidemiologist Tamara Safonova and virologist Alexandra Sheboldaeva discovered Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus in 1937, they were accused of spreading the virus themselves and sentenced to 18 years in Soviet labor camps.
4k8m5 TIL that Poppy flowers became associated with the military after a Canadian poet was inspired by a field of poppies near a mass grave in Belgium folliwing World War 1. The poppies grew there after the bombing and trench warfare churned up the soil, exposing dormant poppy seeds to the sunlight.
9mp6 TIL that Rasputin’s causes of death are mostly myths: He didn’t drown and wasn’t poisoned, either.
VB18 TIL that David Vetter lived his whole 12 years in sterile “bubble”. He was “outside” less than 10 second after being removed from his mother’s womb. He never touched any human.
lobBB TIL that while rare, cow vagina is a delicacy street food usually eaten in South East Asia, especially Vietnam.