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TIL people with “baby faces” tend to live longer healthier lives than those who look their age.

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vPXP4 TIL that during the American Civil War, agents of the Confederacy attempted to spread yellow fever in the North (using contaminated blankets) in one of the earliest recorded examples of biological warfare.
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