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TIL Patient “Zero” was a misunderstanding of patient “O”

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R5px8 TIL The Antennae Galaxies is made up of two galaxies crashing into eachother. Information gained from the Antennae Galaxies has been used to predict what will happen when our galaxy, the Milky Way, crashes into the Andromeda Galaxy.
magE TIL The current image of what everyone thinks Jesus looks like is actually 15th Century Cesare Borgia, the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI. Alexander VI commissioned Leonardo Di Vinci to recast Jesus in the image of his own beloved son Cesare Borgia.
xVEZo TIL - The inventor of the USB had originally intended for it to be flippable, however that idea was scrapped due to the extra cost. Despite USB becoming the standard, he still regrets that decision. "In hindsight, we blew it," he said.
4X4Aa TIL that throughout history, about 80 percent of women reproduced, whereas only 40 percent of men did
YpNEW TIL in 1995 civil engineers warned the Sampoong Department Store in Seoul, S. Korea that structural failure was inevitable and it needed to be evacuated. They didn't close because it was so busy and it collapsed that day with 500+ people inside. One director left without warning his daughter in law.