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TIL that Americans spend more time watching other people on television cook than they do cooking themselves.

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J1Q5B TIL that subacute sclerosing panencephalitis or Dawson disease is a rare presentation of the measles virus that can survive in the body long term without provoking an immune response. Once symptoms develop (an average of 7 years after primary measles infection), the outcome is invariably fatal.
Bgrbk TIL In the past people used to feed opium to calm down crying babies.
pYB04 TIL: in 2013, 64-year-old Diana Nyad swam from Cuba to Florida. A distance of 110 miles. It took 53 hours.
R7pa6 TIL that four months after actress Brittany Murphy unexpectedly died at the age of 32 in her L.A. home of pneumonia and severe anemia, her widow Simon Monjack was found dead in the same home of pneumonia and severe anemia.
AD4Gw TIL in 1970, two young merchant seamen led the only mutiny on a US ship in the last century. The SS Columbia Eagle was delivering napalm bombs to Vietnam