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TIL armadillos can carry leprosy, and in rare cases can transmit it to humans

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awVkb TIL lead can and has been turned into gold through a process called nuclear transmutation, but the expenses of the procedure far exceed any gain from the value of the resulting gold.
d8Y7r TIL Keanu Reeves believes the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship, i.e. that the works of William Shakespeare were written by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
yQb6v TIL During the New York City Draft Riots of 1863, Leonard Jerome, famous wall street speculator and maternal grandfather of Winston Churchill, defended the New York Times office building with a Gatling Gun.
Nv08 TIL that King Tut’s penis was mummified while erect
E1Mxx TIL the solar storm of 1859 caused the aurora borealis to be seen as far south as the Caribbean and was bright enough to wake miners in the Rockies. The geomagnetic current was also strong enough to power telegraph systems. A similar event happening today would cause widespread blackouts and damage.