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TIL Finns are Mongols from central Asia

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w0m1 TIL people used to be given malaria to cure syphilis. The syphilis was unable to survive the high temperature from the malaria induced fever.
X09O8 TIL the soap opera "The Young and the Restless" has over 13,000 episodes and began airing 1973.
P1XVn TIL that there’s a man on the FBI most wanted list whose last name is “Innocent”
kJdoe TIL that the Talyllyn Railway was the world’s first railway to be preserved as a heritage railway.
D1xRP TIL there is no Korean last name 'Lee'; rather, the second most common family name is 'I', but since single letter names are so uncommon in English, almost all Koreans with that family name choose to go by Lee when representing their name in Roman characters.