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TIL that water droplets expelled my the mouth become airborne more easily in cold, dry conditions. This partially explains why the spread of viruses tends to be seasonal.

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QJaPM TIL Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping studied abroad in Paris at age 16 as well as in Moscow later on. He worked in a Renault plant, factories, and developed two lasting passions in France -- one was for croissants; the other was for communism
oxeL TIL that in ancient Rome during funerals, a person called an Archimime would walk behind the deceased and imitate the person like they were still alive.
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N7BlP TIL of Fritz Suhren, a concentration camp commandant. When the allies were close, he took Odette Sansom, an inmate whom he believed to be Churchill's niece, and drove with her to the US base, hoping it would save him. She was in fact a British spy under a false name. He was hanged in 1950
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