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TIL Melinda Liu not only saw this pandemic in 2017, but she, named the very town in China where it would originate.

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p01p TIL A medical receptionist mistook the line “shooting some b-ball outside of the school” for “shooting people outside of the school” on a teen patient’s voicemail message, prompting county-wide school lockdowns.
GlK7 TIL that Alyssa Milano actually made a sex tape - and not just the fake one she made for FunnyOrDie
4X09X TIL of a French territory in South America called French Guiana, who’s got the 17th best GDP mainly due to its primary income being their rocket-launching base in the capital, Kourou.
nWKkP TIL squirrels are opportunistic predators, and will eat birds
oBwRA TIL, the name Aceh(an Indonesian province) is actually an acronym for Arabic-Chinese-European-Hindu. [Source: Extreme Economies by Richard Davies]