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TIL When we're sick, symptoms like aches and fatigue are an evolutionary trait designed to minimize the spread of infection in groups of people.

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NJpN TIL that soldiers most prone to suicide are French horn players.
ANQbg TIL of a mother Sloth bear, with two cubs, who successfully fended off two adult tigers back to back (photos included with article)
W70Dd TIL that during ww2 the Japanese had bombed the also un-contacted cousins of the Sentinelese people, the Jarawa people live nearby and they only established voluntary contact with outsiders in the 1990’s.
vQgx TIL 46.1% of the world’s population is now online - 3.4 billion people
wLm8M TIL That doctors had been inadvertently causing a rise in peanut allergies by telling parents to avoid giving infants peanuts. They discovered Israeli babies are very low risk because of the popularity of the peanut snack Bamba in Israel.