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TIL A stream in New Zealand has a brain eating amoeba in it and you're still allowed to swim.

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KOBb9 TIL Products made in Japan were ridiculed and thought to be low quality until 1950 when The New York Times reported the excellence of Nikon cameras during the Korean war with the headline "Japanese camera"
DQ7aP TIL that "many large opossums (Didelphini) are immune to the venom of rattlesnakes and pit vipers (Crotalinae) and regularly prey upon these snakes."
awpeL TIL that Harper Lee’s friends gave her a full year’s salary for Christmas in 1956 so that she’d be able to take a year off from work to write. Lee used that time to write “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which has since sold over 30 million copies.
5nZ8 TIL that there is a Japanese urban legend about a spirit who haunts public bathrooms and will ask you if you want red or blue toilet paper.
VMYp0 TIL in 2007 about 300 University of Florida students marched to the steps of campus police headquarters the day following the infamous “don’t tase me bro” incident. 4 weeks later the university sponsored a panel to discuss appropriate police practices. 15 people attended and one signed up to comment