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TIL that term 'patient zero' was coined by mistake during the 80's AIDS pandemic, when someone read Patient O (as in first recorded in US Outside California) wrongly

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OoXYR TIL about the Crooked Forest (Krzywy Las) in Poland, a forest of pine trees that bend sharply to the North before returning upright after 3ft of growth, thus resembling fish hooks. No exact reason has been found for their shape as yet.
JvK8 TIL that Chinese authorities have created the world’s first mobile phone walking lane for pedestrians addicted to texting.
D1Nyj TIL Hawaii's lava flow has added 570 acres of land to Hawaii's Big Island since 1983
yQNga TIL that the first shipping container was invented and patented in 1956 by the owner of an American trucking fleet, which reduced his shipping cost from $5.86 to .16 cents, paving the way for globalisation and mass intercontinental shipping.
5vo8 TIL that people will judge pictures of faces as more attractive if their own faces have partially been morphed into the picture. If too much (>22%) is morphed in, the attractiveness-ratings plumit: An evolutionary mechanism to ensure avoiding inbreeding, researchers say