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TIL immunization efforts have reduced polio cases by >99%. Pakistan accounts for 86% of the current cases

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696Zw TIL Adolf Heusinger, Operations Chief within the general staff of the High Command of the German Army from 1938-1944, would become the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 1961 to 1964.
8adW4 TIL that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's production company is named Seven Bucks because that is the amount of money he had to his name when he was cut from the Canadian Football League
e05Z6 TIL that Animorphs's entire 64-book run was published in a span of 5 years
D1GgJ TIL about Henry Tandey, the most highly decorated British private of World World I, who also became famous for supposedly not killing Adolf Hitler, then a German soldier, when he encountered him in Marcoing, France. However, Tandey's biographer and others believe the story is an urban legend.
o1Lr TIL that before Alcoa could build an aluminum smelting plant in Iceland, the government had to certify that the area was “elf-free”.