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TIL that Louis Pasteur, the inventor of pasteurization, also went on to create vaccines for Rabies, Anthrax, Tuberculosis, and Smallpox.

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PYYyL The burning question of the season
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9YbLr TIL: Former member of Blink-182, Tom DeLonge, has signed a research agreement with the Army to study "inertial mass reduction, mechanical/structural meta materials, electromagnetic meta material wave guides, quantum physics, quantum communications, and beamed energy propulsion"
M7eEV TIL The American Dental Association supports chewing sugarless gum since it increases salivary volume and flow, thus protecting against cavities.
wnx7 TIL that in the town of Zillah, Washington, there is a small church, very appropriately named “The Church of God-Zillah”