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TIL Excess Weight Can Weaken The Flu Shot

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X9j8 TIL that when Kim Peek managed payrolls of 160 people, he was able to complete this task in just hours without a calculator and when he was fired to be replaced by computer, it took two full time accountants plus the computer just to replace him.
Oy1e TIL: One of the canonized books in the Mormon faith was divinely translated from an ancient Egyptian papyrus by the Mormons’ founder, Joseph Smith. The document still exists, and modern translations do not agree.
W1K4 TIL that US military suicides surpassed combat deaths in 2012
xe51 TIL North Korea has the 4th largest army, the largest special forces and the largest submarine fleet in the world.
M7JbW TIL Juliane de Fontevrault, the illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England, tried to kill him with a crossbow after he permitted the blinding of her daughters, his grandchildren, who were hostages at the time.