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TIL There were 999 cases of Black Death reported in the United States between 1900 and 2010.

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Z86VD TIL a single dose of the antibiotic azithromycin, taken orally, can cure yaws, a horrific tropical disease that causes disfiguring, ulcerating wounds and usually occurs in children. There’s hope that the disease can be completely eradicated, like smallpox has been.
vaRr TIL Def Jam Records founder Rick Rubin was in a punk band called The Pricks that asked friends to heckle during a gig in order to start a brawl leading to the band being kicked off stage & the show being shut down by a “cop” who was really Rubin’s father, in an effort to create buzz around the band
ve9x TIL that Former KISS drummer, Peter Criss, as a prank dressed up like a Nazi and knocked on the door to Gene Simmons’ (who is descended from Holocaust survivors) hotel room and demanded to see his papers.
dY08 TIL that during the war, Vietnamese children thought the American soldiers were blind because they had blue eyes and wore sunglasses all the time.
4XEEa TIL that the 1st moon landing, the Manson murders and the Woodstock festival all happened within the timespan of just one month (the Summer of 69) (cbsnews.com)