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TIL that Measles infection causes "immune amnesia" which causes your immune system to forget how to fight pathogens that you had previously obtained immunity to.

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4p8g TIL Sardine refers only to a fish’s size, not its species
0deGA TIL in October 1995, the potato became the first vegetable to be grown in space. Seed potatoes were grown in space using technology called quantum tubers developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, combining with China’s agricultural techniques.
N7WV8 TIL despite what the song American song, "Home, home on the range" says, antelope do not occur in the Americas
Z8Dr4 TIL that some of the people born deaf think in sign language. When thinking, they see themselves using sign language in a first or third person view.
j5PM TIL the first president of Zimbabwe was named President Banana