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TIL when India had an epidemic,Nipah virus outbreak in 2018, 3 doctors identified and reported it.Authorities immediately got in touch with WHO;2000 people were quarantined,17 people died in total.The outbreak was declared over within 2 months and the state was lauded for preventing a big epidemic.

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VMgdZ TIL Liechtenstein and Haiti developed identical national flags independently of each other. No one realized until the two countries competed against each other in the 1936 Summer Olympics under the same flag.
b6LZ9 TIL in Dec. 2018-2022, there were 4,759 people killed in alcohol-impaired-driving crashes. In Dec. ‘22, young drivers ages 21-34 had the highest percentage (25%) of DUI fatalities. And Nighttime drunk driving was more dangerous than daytime driving, with 31% of fatalities between 6 pm - 5:59 am.
VMXE4 TIL of Charles Henry Turner. He was an African American scientist who earned his PhD in 1907. He discovered that insects could distinguish pitch, that cockroaches can learn by trial and error and that honeybees can see color.
p8PaN TIL that Stephen King cannot remember writing Cujo (1981) because he was so out of it on cocaine
Gn91 TIL according to NASA Las Vegas is the brightest city on Earth.