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TIL about The Antibiotic Resistance Crisis - Due to the overuse of antibiotics and rapid evolution of bacteria, most of the antibiotics we use today will no longer work in the near future.

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awL4y TIL that Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, annulled Henry VIII's marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, beginning a chain of events that would culminate in the English Reformation.
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W7ZrY TIL that legal poppy farmers in Tasmania couldn't figure out why they kept getting crop circles until it was revealed wallabies were breaking in to eat the bulbs to get high then running around in circles trampling the flowers
yVAwe TIL Coney Island was at one point and island and they artificially connected it to Brooklyn in the 1920s-30s
g0eD TIL Chimpanzees and monkeys have entered the Stone Age