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TIL bacteriophage therapy, discarded by western medicine, has been practiced for years in the Former Soviet Union, and has great potential in treating in diseases where antibiotics are failing.

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0dEQy TIL Kylie Minogue released a cover of "The Loco-Motion" in 1988
ZLbQ TIL a Titanic survivor also survived the Brittanic sinking and the Olympic collision.
nWlpG TIL the leader of the Confederacy during the Civil War, Jefferson Davis, served only 2 years in prison and was then pardoned and freed, never having a trial.
w4QP TIL that Cape Canaveral has the area code “3-2-1”, to resemble the countdown sequence for rocket launches occurring in the area.
vPj6B TIL about Pérák, the Spring Man of Prague, who began as an urban legend during the Nazi occupation of the Czech capital city and later became a pop-culture antifascist superhero.