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TIL that an outbreak of swine flu in the US in 1976 killed one person, but the vaccine for said swine flu killed 25 people.

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GAyV4 TIL that there are 3 territories today claimed to be Terra nullius (’No man’s land’): Bir Tawil (a strip of land between Egypt and Sudan), four pockets of land near the Danube due to the Croatia–Serbia border dispute, and parts of Antarctica.
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