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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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b9vlZ TIL that Glenn Shadix, the actor who played Otho in Beetlejuice, was subjected to “ex gay” electrical shock treatments when he came out to his parent. When this failed to change his orientation, he attempted suicide and survived a 3 day coma. After the incident, his parents accept ed his sexuality.
6EwDW TIL that a 2012 study found 1,458 “new to science” bacteria species in our belly buttons. People’s bacterial profiles are unique, like fingerprints, and can be used in the same way. One person had a bacterium only ever found in Japanese soil," where he had never been.
GYAPg TIL about a book about 'Vienna without jews' written in 1922. A mere 16 years later, jews were hunted down under Hitler's command
R7J14 TIL: American cheeses have that distinctive orange color because producers dye it with a natural food additive, Annatto. The color was once considered to indicate higher quality cow diet and superior quality cheese.
8ao88 TIL that the US Navy maintains a white oak forest in Indiana for the oldest commissioned US naval vessel, USS Constitution. The forest is 150 oak trees in reserve for repairs to the wooden 224 year old Constitution when she needs it.