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TIL JRR Tolkien was responsible for many W word definitions we have today in the Oxford English Dictionary

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ne6OY TIL A man intentionally walked in feces to infect himself with worms in order to build his immune response
WkGdN TIL that the reason why Europeans gave Native Americans many diseases in the New World, but not vice versa, is not just because of Europe's population dense cities/towns, but also because the Europeans had animal agriculture.
69Knl TIL: Nintendo and Sony collaborated in the early 90s on a CD-ROM console called Nintendo Playstation, which was never released, but repurposed into the Sony Playstation
QJ7OL TIL that there is an "Uncensored Library" server run on Minecraft to circumvent censorship in countries that don't have freedom of the press.
lo7nG TIL Television commercials send ultrasonic signals to electronic devices that are used to link the owner to TV viewing habits and to tie multiple devices to one owner.