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TIL that many of us are not in "quarantine" because many of us are healthy. Instead we are forming a "Cordon sanitaire" - a phrase meaning a "sanitary barrier".

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MeDZ0 TIL that in 1965-1966 a morbidly obese man named Angus Barbieri went 382 days without eating, losing 276lbs (125kg).
NlO8 TIL that Costa Rica plans to shut down its zoos and release some animals in captivity and eventually do away with public zoos altogether
NAoP TIL That an Anti-Piracy Ad was fined for using stolen music.
V1mk TIL not a single engineer survived the Titanic sinking. They stayed on board in an effort to give others the chance to escape
9ww8B TIL about kleptoparasitism, an opportunistic feeding strategy where one animal deliberately steals food from another.