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

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j68Av TIL that the official cause of Houdini's death on Halloween in 1926 was diffuse peritonitis; this is the result of a burst appendix. J. Gordon Whitehead's sucker punch did not cause his death because Houdini died 6 days later after the punch, and it was caused from a bacterial infection.
N7v7N TIL that a group of reporters submitted a computer generated fake 'research' paper to a scientific journal... and it was published.
1aBY4 TIL that between North and South Korea lies 155 miles of no man’s land where hundreds of rare animals species thrive.
awgYA TIL that when Australian beer companies learned that their bottles were having an observable impact on the jewel beetle population—because male beetles were confusing the "stubbies" for females, and ended up dying in the hot Australian sun, leaving no heirs—the companies changed their beer bottles.
GpYJ TIL Both Stalin and Hitler were Nominated for Nobel Peace Prizes