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TIL A fecal transplant is among the most effective treatments for C.Difficile and IBD. Finding donors is much easier than finding recipients

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8QgX TIL In 1968 a student at Oregon University turned up to every class in a black bag and sat at the back of the room in silence. At first the student was treated with hostility, then curiosity before finally friendship. This is known as the mere-exposure effect.
9wyDm TIL accoding to the FAA, air traffic controller applicants must be under the age of 31 and generally must retire at age 56
xVW9o TIL that white truffle hunters are extremely secretive about their business. They park their cars miles away from their hunting sites at ungodly hours along with their dogs which they protect with their lives. Not even the family members are let in on the secret.
4XK7N TIL of the Great Whiskey Fire of Dulbin that killed 13 people in 1875. None perished as a result of smoke, burns, or inhalation. All victims died of alcohol poisoning by drinking the whiskey flowing through the streets.
GYVNE TIL that the city of Erbil in Iraq has a 'bulge' in the middle that has formed over the course of 6000 years as new buildings have been built over the remains of old ones