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TIL Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion

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6nxJ TIL Bears eat things that don’t digest to plug their rectum during hibernation. The result is a very painful BM in the springtime.
OGNwg TIL there is no 0 BC. The calendar goes from 1 BC to AD 1
R5Mgw TIL For eight months during World War II Chester Keefer oversaw all civilian use of penicillin. The period of rationing had Keefer review every case and decide if a patient would receive the drug. Keefer's work gained him the nickname 'penicillin czar'.
j64rM TIL there is only one recorded case of a human adult being killed by coyotes.
b6Eg0 TIL that although forbidden by the rules, Ralph Steinman was awarded a Nobel Prize for "his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity" after his death which occurred three days earlier on September 30, 2011, the jury being unaware of his death at the time of its decision.