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TIL Coco Chanel was a Nazi Agent in WWIi Paris

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vPVN4 TIL: Honey can be used for healing wounds
x6yYo TIL There’s a $75k surgery to make you taller (info in comments)
PJdw TIL the primitive immune system of a horseshoe crab makes them useful to humans. Every drug certified by the FDA must be tested using an extract from their blood cells. Their blood is worth ~$15,000 a quart. A horseshoe crab can be bled, returned to the ocean, and after time, can give blood again.
ODj1 TIL A small number of prostitutes in Majengo, a slum in Nairobi, have shown an immunity to AIDS. In the past 30 years, one prostitute named Agnes, has had unprotected sex with approximately 2,000 infected men and still shows no signs of the disease.
VMEL0 TIL At 40, women's chance of conceiving a child with Down syndrome is one in 100; at 45 it's one in 30.