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TIL bacteria outnumbers human cells by at least 10-1 in our bodies. Damn it feels good to be a superorganism.

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8J08 TIL that the word Fuhrer is no longer used in German as a meaning of “leader” due to WW2. The word Leiter is used instead.
jGmN TIL that a man having a seizure on subway tracks was rescued by a stranger. The rescuer jumped down onto the man and compressed him down by laying on him as five cars passed over him.
e0VJb TIL of a mysterious fossil animal from Petrified Forest National Park called Kraterokheriodon, known only from a single tooth so strange that it is impossible to classify what kind of animal it came from.
4XbM6 TIL that from 1956 to 2008, the world record for the most-attended baseball game was held by Australia's Melbourne Cricket Ground, which hosted a crowd of 114000 for a game between the Australian National Team and a US Armed Services Team
VMYP0 TIL George Lucas paid a fine and resigned from the Directors’ Guild because they insisted on a traditional credit sequence for A New Hope and he wanted to start it with the now-iconic opening crawl.