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TIL Leonardo Da Vinci was an illegitimate child

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Z8GQR TIL the source of a 1964 Typhoid outbreak in Scotland was traced to a river in Argentina. A meat processing plant there used polluted river water for cooling tins of canned beef. Somewhere there was a leak, which contaminated the meat before it was shipped to Scotland, where it killed 3 people.
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