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TIL That the Seige of Kaffa was most likely NOT how the Black Death came to Europe via biological warfare

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kJ104 TIL: a 22 year old missing persons case was solved in 2017 when someone spotted the missing man's car in a pond just a few yards from a neighbouring house in Google maps
bd5Z TIL Jesus Christ is officially the king of Poland
N7gDe TIL Adélie penguins have been observed to engage in necrophilia, as young males often cannot tell the difference between compliant and dead females. This was first observed in 1912 but was deemed too shocking, and so was only rediscovered in 2012.
9RmX TIL [US only] You can view exactly how much money your doctor has ever received from any pharmaceutical company.
p058 TIL after his wife died because the nearest doctor was 70km away, Dashrath Manjhi carved a 360-foot-long and 30-foot-wide path through a mountain in 22 years, using a hammer and a chisel to make the path from his village to Wazirganj, with its doctors, jobs, and school, only 15 km away.