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TIL that in 2012 there were multiple cases of the Bubonic plague found in the USA including a 7-year-old girl who contracted the plague while camping in Colorado.

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x6Pdb TIL Erramatti Mangamma holds the record for the oldest age to give birth, who gave birth to twins at age 73
rgGw TIL that the children’s menu was created during prohibition as a result of restaurants attempting to offset the losses from going “dry”.
4yJb TIL of Jack the Stripper who killed prostitutes in 60s London, and the killing stopped when a detective falsely announced that he had narrowed down the list of suspects.
5VDAP TIL psychiatrists often overlook a patient’s caffeine intake habits during evaluations, despite its overuse being linked to worsening anxiety, disrupting sleep, and mimicking many common symptoms of psychosis.
5YlE9 TIL that though his music career famously sank, Vanilla Ice has kept himself afloat nicely with his home improvment “The Vanilla Ice Project,” with an estimated net worth of $18 million