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TIL 3% of all Antarctic glaciers is composed of Penguin Urine

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Elmd TIL that, according to the memoir of a former slave, First Lady Dolley Madison did not save the Lansdowne portrait of George Washington from the British burning it during the War of 1812. Rather, a Frenchman and a gardener saved it, while Dolley just ran off with silver.
Me1oB TIL that malaria was once used to treat syphilis. Dr. Wagner von Jauregg injected sufferers with malaria-infected blood, causing an extremely high fever that would ultimately kill the disease. Jauregg won the Nobel Prize for the treatment and it remained in use until the development of penicillin.
9YjGB TIL There are more ants alive today, than hours of time since the Big Bang.
GYOM7 TIL about the Fregoli delusion. A disorder where one believes that strangers are in fact all just a single person constantly switching disguises bent on persecuting the afflicted.
1E5W TIL in the 2009 Philippines floods a teenager named Muelmar Magallanes saved 30 lives. After leaping into the rushing waters to save his family from danger, he repeatedly jumped back in to save others, including a trapped mother and baby, until too tired to fight the current he was swept away.