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TIL that you likely have thousands of mites living on your face right now. The males crawl out of your pores at night to find a female and have sex on your face.

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oBB7L TIL Sports Illustrated Predicted the Houston Astros to win 2017 World Series in 2014. They even had the 2017 World Series MVP on the cover.
4kBjg TIL Microsoft Flight Simulator, a video game, is the longest running Microsoft product predating Microsoft Windows by 3 years.
l7Gg7 TIL In 1976, the CAF in Texas sponsored an air show where a B-29 bomber piloted by Paul Tibbets, the pilot who flew the B-29 which bombed Hiroshima during World War II, reenacted the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (including a mock mushroom cloud)
6YZl TIL that a group called the Guerrilla Grafters illegally graft fruit bearing branches onto ornamental public trees in San Francisco.
BQKD TIL that Andrew Wakefield’s study on vaccines causing Autism was debunked in 1999, and the paper he wrote on the subject was retracted in 2010!