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TIL The bacteria that cause leprosy are obligate intracellular parasites and therefore can't be cultured in vitro

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EggGX TIL Pacific ocean (165 millions km²) is wider than the planet Mars (144,8 millions km²) and more than 4 times the size of the moon (38 millions km²)
Brd0y TIL Sergei Prokofiev died the same day as Stalin in 1953. Millions attended Stalin's funeral, but only 40 for Prokofiev's. A musical periodical noted his death on p. 116, with pages 1 to 115 devoted to Stalin. Flowers were so scarce in Moscow that Prokofiev's family used cuttings from house plants.
pL9Q TIL Thomas Edison did not invent the lightbulb and that electric lights had already existed for more than 70 years before he filed his patent in 1878
LbDp TIL pretending to have a mental disorder, is a mental disorder.
YpylP TIL That the word ‘Corgi’ comes from the welsh word cor meaning dwarf and ci which means dog