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TIL that measles can deplete previously acquired immune memory for up to 2 years in adults akin to HIV

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kJvJm TIL about the Story of Stuff, a fascinating video that explains the system of how Americans consume products and produce waste.
6KQ8 TIL On August 1st each year the people of Warsaw, Poland stop everything to pay homage to the Warsaw Uprising the largest rebellion of WWII. Which cost cost over 200,000 lives and destruction of the capital.
KYYN4 TIL that Seals mega-hit 'Kiss From a Rose' originally debuted in The Neverending Story III before it was released in 1995 for the Batman Forever movie.
wBJ7 TIL that there are 3000 cities with worse lead levels in their water supply than Flint, MI
l7oLN TIL about the "Inventio Fortunata," a lost book that described the North Pole as a magnetic island surrounded by a giant whirlpool and four continents, believed to be written in the 14th century. Its influence on maps of the Arctic region persisted into the 16th and 17th centuries.