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TIL there are currently 14,690 known species of virus to have been officially classified

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LQdwp TIL that no (verified) person born on February 29th has ever reached their golden birthday.
xVA4b TIL of Peribsen, an early Egyptian pharaoh whose royal name identified him with the god Seth, rather than with Horus as tradition dictated (particularly strange, since the two gods were mortal enemies). Little is known of his reign, but he's conspicuously absent from later king lists.
W774B TIL that freight trains often illegally slow down Amtrak trains.
e0Xk6 TIL that in Sri Lanka, by law, women are STILL prohibited from buying alcohol! The law was briefly abandoned in 2018, only for the president at that time to step in and reactivate this archaic law again.
J9oQ TIL XXX on cartoon jugs of alcohol originally denoted three time distilled, resulting in almost pure alcohol content.