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TIL that Eczema is considered an autoimmune disorder.
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TIL: That during World War II, the mathematician Oswald T. Avery discovered that DNA, not protein, carries genetic information. His work was initially ignored by the scientific community, but it later paved the way for the discovery of the DNA double helix.
ANkYl
TIL that Tums are chalky because they’re literally made of chalk
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TIL when The Temptations released the album version of "War", the band and their label didn't press a single version to avoid alienating the more conservative part of their fanbase. However, they allowed Edwin Starr to release his cover of that song as a single, thus boosting his career.
lWrA
TIL a bird guides Kenyan people to beehives, which the bird feeds on after humans subdue the bees. A human-bird symbiotic relationship.
7VMP
TIL that there is a garden in England devoted entirely to plants that can kill. The creator, the Duchess of Northumberland, felt that people ‘would be more interested in hearing how a plant killed, how long it would take you to die if you ate it and how gruesome and painful the death might be’.