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TIL: The reason why pigs are the enemy of birds in Angry Birds is because at the time the game was being designed, the swine flu epidemic was in the news.

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n5P TIL There’s an ant with a sting as painful as a gunshot wound.
VRKk TIL Beretta is the oldest gun company in the world being established 1526 in Brescia, Italy.
D10GP TIL of “The Milk”. In 1994, a student at MIT bought a carton of milk but forgot to use it, and rediscovered it 10 months later. Instead of binning it he threw a ‘birthday’ for it. A cult following developed for this legendary expired dairy product. In 2015 it celebrated its 21st birthday.
d8R1B TIL of the Lost Scottish Clan of Gurro in Northern Italy. The claim is that retreating Scottish Guardsmen from a defeated French Army stopped in town and recreated their ways there, which remained preserved to this day.
neOP9 TIL that, in 2014, scientists found a giant 30,000 year old virus in Siberian permafrost. The virus, Pithovirus sibericum, was still infectious and began killing amoebas. This raised concerns that melting or drilling arctic ice could unearth previously undiscovered pathogenic viruses.