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TIL: The adult human has two to nine pounds of bacteria in his or her body.

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wLaA1 TIL Blondie’s ‘Rapture’ (1981) is credited as the first rap song to ever top the US charts
l7EK5 TIL that Alaska and Hawaii have the same record high temperature (last paragraph of article)
kOo5 TIL a Paraplegic man suffered a spider bite and was able to walk again
5VBgp TIL that during the Little Rock Crisis, ex-Governor of Arkansas Sid McMath called on Eisenhower to assume control of the Arkansas National Guard if Governor Orval Faubus tried to obstruct the carrying out of federal court orders on school integration.