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TIL In 36 BCE, Roman statesman Marcus Varro wrote about germs, describing “minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, which…enter the body through the mouth and nose and there cause serious diseases.” The germ theory of disease would not be accepted widely for another 1,900 years.

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V98Q TIL that the killer of Jacob Wetterling, an 11-year-old boy who was kidnapped in 1989 and went missing for 26 years, was actually questioned by the FBI less than two months after the boy’s abduction, but was let go. In 2016, he confessed to the killing – but he will not be charged.
a87Ey TIL Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, despite being 6'4", had a voice that was described as “a thin tenor, or rather falsetto, voice, almost as high-pitched as a boatswain's whistle.”
5J0p TIL António Moniz, the surgeon who developed the frontal lobotomy procedure to make people calm and docile, was shot by one of his lobotomized patients.
AZWg TIL in the 1980s, the BBC televised a live demonstration of email. Prior to transmission, a studio guest overheard a crew member saying the email account password and phoned a friendly hacker. Once on air, the presenter logged in – and was met with a poem about hacking and insecure passwords.
yQOXe TIL modern studies do not show any association between saturated fat and higher risk of death for any reason (cardiovascular disease, heart attack, stroke, etc.) but they do show up to a 34% increase in death associated with unsaturated industrial plant oil-based fats such as margarine