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TIL of the 2003 Monkeypox Outbreak, in which there were no documented human-to-human transmissions. Instead, all 71 afflicted parties got infected from prairie dogs. The prairie dogs were likely infected by Gambian pouched rats while they were housed at the same Illinois exotic pet store.

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6mEw TIL in 1993, The Barbie Liberation Organization challenged gender stereotypes by switching the voice boxes of hundreds of Barbie and G.I. Joe dolls and ‘reverse shoplifting’ them back into stores. Barbies would yell, “Eat lead, Cobra!” while G.I. Joes would ask, “Want to go shopping?”.
8e1Ob TIL Isaac Newton created the modern color wheel
grX4W TIL Hunter S. Thompson started QAnon’s Adrenochrome Quackery
lBYN TIL there has been a reported case of human-to-human cancer transmission, where a surgeon cut his hand while resecting a tumor and seeded the patient’s cancer cells on his hand.
W7VxL TIL that movie composer Hans Zimmer employs a number of other composers, as well as orchestrators and sound engineers, to help write and arrange the music for his movie scores.