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TIL that the skin of tilapia fish is used to treat serious burns in Brazil. Human trials show fish skin grafts are quicker and more painless than other methods

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XQnQ TIL Steven Spielberg spent $250,000 of his own money in a campaign to see Bill Murray win an Oscar for his role in “What About Bob?”
JYNOv TIL that in 2004, Scientology embarked on a top-secret project which involved finding a girlfriend for Tom Cruise.
x6A90 TIL only two countries have money that are non-decimal currencies: Mauritania, where 1 ouguiya = 5 khoums, and Madagascar, where 1 ariary = 5 iraimbilanja. There was an attempt to undecimalise units of time during the french revolution but it failed.
vPeVD TIL a British drinking song, called "Anacreon in Heaven" was originally written for a 18th century Masonic club. The tune was later lifted by Francis Scott Key and merged with the poem "Defense of Fort McHenry" to become "The Star Spangled Banner", the national anthem of the United States.
VBpam TIL about a "new" form of phishing attack called browser in the browser aka BitB , which replicate a login window inside the page to steal login data, and it is scarry !