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TIL the lifespan of the largest brain corals is 900 years

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YeYd TIL The Great Gatsby originally sold poorly (20,000 copies in the first year) and the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, died believing himself to be a failure.
6ELMW TIL there are 4.7 million dog bites in the US each year, and 800,000 of those bites result in medical care. That means a dog bites 1 out of every 69 people.
BxnD TIL there was a kid who killed his parents thinking they’d respawn
DrOr TIL that while Danny Trejo was filming his cameo in “The Muppets: Most Wanted!” his mother passed. The cast all offered their sympathy but he shrugged it off because of his ‘tough guy’ persona. It wasn’t until Steve Whitmire apologized in character as Kermit the Frog that Trejo broke down crying.
07BR TIL a man was cured of HIV in Germany via a bone marrow transplant from a donor whose gene mutation made him immune to HIV. That gene is relatively common in N. Europe. Researchers have speculated that the gene is the result of natural selection during diseases similar to small pox or Black Death