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TIL leprosy is still around and affects approximately 200,000 people a year, but it's very curable, and requires months of close contact to contract it from another person.

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YpNLP TIL British Parliament had an official discussion where they condemned the historical inaccuracies of the film U-571 and the rewriting of history to paint the Americans as heroes in an event they never even took part in. They felt it was unfair on the British sailors that lost their lives.
XEGW8 TIL that in 2016 a class action lawsuit was filed against Procter & Gamble, seeking settlements for victims of chemical burns and rashes caused by using certain sticks of Old Spice deodorant.
KOQyw TIL the U.S. put Italian-Americans in an internment camp in Montana during WWII as a result of Executive Order 9066
Y7PnG TIL The former Confederate President Jefferson Davis met a crowd of 7,000 cheering people when he came to Montreal, Canada. Montreal had been a safe haven for Confederates during the Civil War and some Canadians had supported the Confederacy out of fear the Union might invade Canada.
ne4aB TIL: some scientists believe that the Chernobyl nuclear disaster has killed over one million people and health effects are still occurring, especially in children