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TIL of Typhoid Mary. Mary was a cook in New York City in the early 1900s.An asymptomatic carrier of typhoid, she infected 20 people, causing one death. After years of isolation, she went back to cooking, causing another major outbreak and two more deaths. She spent the rest of her life in isolation.

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bXr4 TIL in 1960, Singapore’s birth rate was 5.4, so the government introduced a policy to stop parents from having more than 2 kids. The fertility rate dropped to 1.44, below replacement rates so the government reversed its policy. The fertility rate has never restored back to replacement levels since
GAw14 TIL Mexican actress Silvia Pinal smuggled the last remaining copy of the film Virdiana out of Spain after the Vatican ordered all other copies destroyed
7r6PL TIL that Wellington awarded the Key to the City to a cat named Mittens, for "bringing happiness, laughter and coolness to the capital – and putting the city on the map internationally with his feline antics."
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