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TIL newborn babies can contract herpes via contact with a person suffering from a cold sore and this is fatal in some cases.

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XEZBr TIL that Joseph Medicine Crow earned the title ‘War Chief’ by completing four tasks as a warrior during WWII: leading a successful war party on a raid, capturing an enemy’s weapon, touching an enemy without killing him, and stealing an enemy’s horse.
xRm5 TIL of the Permian Mass Extinction where 96% of species died out. All life on Earth is descended from the 4% that survived.
pY8AA TIL that Neuticles are implantable fake dog testicles invented by Gregg Miller, a man who believed that neutered male dogs really miss their balls a lot. The first commercially implanted Neuticles went into a dog in 1995 with over half a million pairs sold since at an average cost of $310 per pair.
pyle TIL, there is a small village in Japan that invented the practice of rice paddy art whereby 4 different strains of rice are planted in a pattern so that they form a picture once the rice matures.
oB6mr TIL that the Yellow Sam betting coup was a successful betting scheme played out at an Irish racetrack in 1975. The elaborate operation was eventually deemed legal, netting over 300K Irish pounds for Barney Curley and his team. Angry bookies paid out in over 100 bags of single bills.