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TIL A liter of seawater typiically contains 100 billion viruses, most of which infect microorganisms

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OGA9L TIL in 1905, a minor league baseball player named Andy Oyler hit a home run where the ball only traveled two feet. It had been raining and he hit it right in front of him into the mud and the defense couldn’t find the ball before he rounded the bases.
oxRK Til Ben Franklin never wanted the wild turkey as the symbol of America, it was a satirical statement in a personal letter.
00dv TIL that a 17-year old girl diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma refused chemotherapy because she did not want to put the “poison” in her body. After the state took custody of the girl from her mother, a judge mandated she undergo chemotherapy treatment. She is now in remission.
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