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TIL There's a kid biting an onion every day until the next Shrek movie

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E1M6P TIL about xenodiagnosis - where a bug that would usually carry a disease-carrying organism is allowed to feed on a patient's blood so that its gut can be then examined to try and find the organism and make the diagnosis
Egy9X TIL that adults have 206 bones, while babies start out with around 305. Bones fuse together as we grow, which is why we end up with fewer bones than we had at birth, with a quarter of our bones being in our feet.
Q6n6 TIL Sony made a digital camera in 1997 that stored images on a 3.5 inch floppy disk
QJZGe TIL in 1988, Cosmo magazine told its female readers that having unprotected sex with an HIV-positive man is totally safe as long as they did the missionary position.
Evvx TIL Englishman Frank Bickerton fought in both world wars, was drafted into 2 Antarctic expeditions, developed a golf course, was the hero of a novel, killed bears, wrote major motion pictures, treasure hunted in Costa Rica & married an earl’s granddaughter