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TIL there is a vaccine for Lyme disease, but humans can’t get it because the manufacturer fears getting sued

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mBnE TIL that a Chinese man bought and raised two puppies, cared for them despite their frequent killing and eating of chickens, and then discovered they were bears.
PYjYw TIL that a 2.85m statue of former President Bush stands in an Albanian town to show appreciation for US-led NATO airstrikes in 1999
d8rgQ TIL A team of economists at NYU found that getting off Facebook appears to improve people’s lives. Users who deactivated their accounts for a month seemed to enjoy themselves more as a result, showing decreases in depression and anxiety and improvements in happiness and life satisfaction.
w118 TIL Columbus thought manatees were mermaids on Jan 09, 1493 describing them as “not half as beautiful as they are painted.”
x6yk5 TIL Sean Connery had a younger brother named Neil, a plasterer and part-time actor who starred in a James Bond knockoff called ‘O.K. Connery’