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TIL ringworm is caused by the same type of fungi (dermatophytes) as ones for athlete's foot

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pGj4 TIL there is a twitter account that follows WW2 on a real-time basis on this day/time in 1941
9YWJM TIL that in 1926 President Coolidge and his wife were gifted a raccoon as a Thanksgiving dinner gift. They did not want to eat her, so they named Rebecca and kept her as a pet. She had free range of The White House and would go on trips with the couple.
xAA7 TIL that mathematician Paul Erdős published so many papers during his lifetime that there exists the Erdős number scale which measures the “collaborative distance” between Erdős and other mathematicians. Over 130,000 mathematicians have an Erdős number.
R5Nx4 TIL: Avis car rental company can automatically upload your phone content, data, contacts, etc. See the last paragraph of Section 33.
69yX TIL: that Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, Jason Patric, Keanu Reeves and John Travolta were considered for the role of Jim Morrison in the movie “The Doors” - Travolta was so popular with the original band that they even considered putting the band back together with Travolta on vocals.