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TIL that 20% of Legionnaires disease in the UK is caused by people using water instead of windshield washing fluid.

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4XB5N TIL that’s rats can laugh. It’s inaudible to humans at 50kHz.
6yKX TIL The Simpsons Movie is banned in Myanmar due to an edict banning the usage of the colors red and yellow in film
v1NXL TIL: "Star wars: Return of the Jedi" crawl was the only one not to follow the four dot rule.
e0kZ5 TIL about Dr. Carlo Urbani who first identified the SARS coronavirus, is credited with triggering the rapid response that helped bring the outbreak to an end, and lost his own life to the virus just one month later.
Z8NZB TIL about the hunter-gatherer practice of "Insulting the Meat." To keep the best hunters from thinking themselves above the rest of the tribe, Ju/’hoan people insult the quality of the meat and lightheartedly mock the hunter who brought the animal down. The bigger the kill, the greater the insults.