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TIL that 86% of acute onset OCD cases are linked to streptococcus infections in children due to pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome.

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vkmr TIL of Isaac Woodard, An African-American World War II veteran who was attacked while still in uniform by a South Carolina police chief Lynwood Shull and his police officers. Woodard was blinded for the rest of his life. Shull was later acquitted by an all-white jury.
x6pVg TIL that a bear took a three year old child, off a front porch, by carrying her in it's front paws while running away on its hind legs. The child was later found dead and the bear was killed when it returned to finish eating the body.
9YBMG TIL that once you've solved 5,472,730,538 games of Sudoku, you've solved 'em all.
9MGM TIL Only two species have domesticated other species: humans and ants
wLj7P TIL that the first crime ever recorded in Antarctica occurred when a Soviet scientist, upset at losing a chess game (to another Soviet scientist), attacked his opponent with an ice axe. It's unclear whether the attack was fatal or not, but the result was that chess was banned by the Soviets.