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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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a8jRy TIL Charles Lindbergh was actually the 67th person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean
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KYLda TIL that 18th century British churches employed "sluggard wakers" to whack the heads of parishioners who fell asleep during the service