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TIL Rubella infection is one of the major reason for Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) in infants.

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XEWNj TIL When building the Trevi Fountain, Nicola Salvi ensured to add an urn on the right before he died. This was to block an “unsightly” barbershop whose owner had been continuously critiquing the work.
KAZ9 TIL the FAA estimates within 15 years there will be over 20,000 drones in the U.S.- watching us from the skies.
4X16R TIL of Brian Robson, a Welshman man who tried to mail himself back to the UK. Unfortunately, not only did he not arrive at his intended location, he instead arrived in Los Angeles in extreme pain and was barely able to move.
X9vD TIL that dogs tilt their heads when a human speaks to them because they’re trying to identify the words, locate their source and see the speaker better
LxBp TIL that by 2012 the players of World of Warcraft had collectively spent about 6 million years worth of time playing the game, about as much time as humanity has spent evolving as a species