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TIL before antibiotics, patients with syphilis were sometimes purposefully infected with malaria. This was because the bacteria that causes syphilis doesn’t fare well at higher temperatures (a blistering fever is a side effect of malaria).

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1aVGr TIL that Bill Murray signed up for the Garfield movie because he thought Joel Coen, of the Coen Brothers, was the writer; however, the writer was Joel Cohen, the man who wrote Toy Story and Cheaper by the Dozen. He still did the movie. And the sequel.
j69kX TIL red lipstick has bugs in it
l7YbG TIL for his 30th birthday, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong was given a toilet seat with the logos of bands he hated, including Nickelback, Creed, and P.O.D.
wooG1 TIL birds are the only living descendants of dinosaurs; birds evolved from a group of dinosaurs called theropods.
XYbD TIL that a father was denied access to see his premature twins in the NICU when Beyonce and Jay-Z had their daughter at the same time.