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TIL Not finishing your round of antibiotics breeds supergerms

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MeXZW TIL that Grover Cleveland is the only President in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office.
QJWOd TIL that sloths don't fart. Their metabolism is so slow that they absorb methane through their bloodstream and breathe it out.
x6Bko TIL Michael Jackson only agreed to 10 shows for his "This is It" concert series but his managers went ahead and increased it to 50. His father Joe Jackson was concerned from the beginning that promoters were pushing Michael too hard, resulting in his death
KOg59 TIL In 1986 during one of the strangest natural disasters in history, "Lake Nyos" suffocated over 1,746 people in one night.
lo5yN TIL the first SMS text message was sent 27 years ago in December 1992 and simply said “Merry Christmas “