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TIL Plaquenil (Hydroxychloroquine) has a tertiary use to treat porphyria, a disease associated with vampire and werewolves.

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aReN TIL dick meant ‘a person of questionable character’ long before it was a slang word for the penis
4XYwb TIL of "Millionaire Secretaries", those who started with early fledgling internet companies and were usually given stock options in lieu of higher salaries, often leading to riches after IPOs. Dozens of companies boasted such secretaries in the late 1990s.
4XoRg TIL about Ligertown, an incident in Idaho where about 50 sheriff’s deputies, SWAT teams, Fish and Game officers and Idaho State troopers killed 15 lions whose escape from a chicken wire-enclosed game compound for lions, tigers and crossbred "ligers″ forced parents to keep their children indoors.
VAdB TIL Crabs are almost eradicated in part because 80% of college kids shave (at least some) of their pubic hair
lo4e7 TIL that because Peru's Machu Picchu is in a hidden location, invisible from below, the Spanish conquistadors never came across the site, and thus were not able to destroy it. Local communities knew about it, but because the Spanish had a reputation of destroying temples, they did not speak of it.