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TIL only 11% of cases of "Influenza-like illness" are actually caused by Influenza, and ~ 68% by unknown agents.

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yaZe TIL on October 14th, 1944, doomed death camp prisoners at Sobibór managed to lure numerous high ranking Nazi officers into separate workshops, on the pretext of fitting them with new boots and clothes. They then hacked their defenseless captors to death with various tools and objects, one by one.
J1K6B TIL that Siemens manufactured 69 trains powered by Cummins engines.
5Q19 TIL that in Paradise Lost, Pandemonium is the capital of Hell and maintained an actual Parliament-type building. Mulciber, a fallen angel who was the architect of the palaces in Heaven designed it after he was cast out.
7r0KP TIL There is a theory that Earth was completely frozen over in a phenomenon known as "Snowball Earth" between 700 million and 600 million years ago.
KOp6E TIL: In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered the mould he was working with produced a substance that could kill many common bacteria. He called this new, exciting substance "mould juice". Only after a couple of months did he name it penicillin.