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TIL that injecting yourself intravenously with papayas would cause your Immunoglobulins to fragment, resulting in the cease of function of the adaptive immune system.

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mxy7M TIL about "Delay-Interval Delivery" where twins are delivered up to weeks apart to help increase survival chances of both babies.
8ao4b TIL about Jaime Escalante. He was able to help hundreds of students to pass the AP calculus test in a school where almost no students went to college. He was forced to leave the school due to death threats and intimidation from other teachers.
b6nj7 TIL Tamara Torlakson pooped her pants while running a marathon and still set her personal best.
7N7r TIL that Gloria Steinem talked Leonardo DiCaprio out of playing Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, saying, “Please, please don’t do this to those girls. The eyes of all 13-year-old girls are upon you and you can’t play a guy that tortures and kills women.” (Then she married Christian Bale’s dad.)
a8pVN TIL After pressure from his parents and advice from his college tutors, Bob Klose quit the band Tea Set in mid-1965. In late-1965 the band rebranded as Pink Floyd.