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TIL during the winter, people spend more time indoors with the windows sealed, so they are more likely to breathe the same air as someone who has the flu and thus contract the virus.Days are shorter during the winter, and lack of sunlight leads to low levels of vitamin D decreasing immunity to virus

b6D0j TIL of the eccentric Lord Longford who attempted to get parole for serial killer Myra Hindley, and who visited strip clubs in the 1970’s to compile a report on them. Longford nonetheless did acts of kindness, such as visiting a man who was dying of AIDS and had been abandoned by his family.
d81pZ TIL that the Jeopardy sketch on Saturday Night Live was credited to Norm MacDonald, who in turn credits Eugene Levy for generously sharing the concept from SCTV which Norm watched as a child.
neD9r TIL that Nosferatu makes a second appearance in Spongebob in a 2018 episode called “The Night Patty.” This is over 15 years after his first Spongebob appearance in “Graveyard Shift” and nearly 100 years after his first appearance in “Nosferatu.”
wLol6 TIL that when the Queen of England dies, Operation London Bridge will commence. It is an originally secret protocol meant to handle the news and organize the country's 12-day mourn. Several news channel rehearse this even every year, replacing her name with "Mrs. Robinson".
P17YO TIL about Walburga “Dolly” Oesterreich, a woman who, in 1922, claimed her husband was murdered by a burglar. The shooter was actually her lover, Otto Sanhuber, who she’d hidden in her attic for ten years. Due to legal technicalities, neither were found guilty