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TIL One bite from the Lone Star Tick can cause a permanent allergy to meat.

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GmJE TIL that ‘Vol De Mort’ means 'Flight From Death’ in French, roughly describing the quest for immortality.
NRw1 TIL the KKK didn’t originally burn crosses. It wasn’t until they were portrayed doing so in the 1915 silent film “Birth of a Nation” that the real KKK actually started doing it.
On5e TIL the American spelling of aluminum (as opposed to aluminium in other countries) is the result of a misspelling by the inventor of a refinement process named Charles Martin Hall. The process was so revolutionary that the spelling stuck.
e0p1L TIL of "Skin Hunger" , where not receiving adequate human touch can have emotional and physical consequences.
emKg TIL that the Hindenburg was originally designed to use non-flammable helium but the USA refused to export any resulting in the hydrogen based construction.