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TIL The first doctor to suggest that doctors wash their hands, was ignored, sent to an asylum and beaten to death

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J1Bb8 TIL The nucli of multicellular fungi cells can migrate, if a fungus encounters something strange like a substance that can't be broken down, nuclei will concentrate in that area to try and find a mutation that can break it down, brute-forcing their DNA, seen also with consuming plastic and radiation
QBl6 TIL that some people attract mosquitoes more than others due to blood type, pregnancy, metabolism and beer.
ADnv4 TIL about the scholarship instituted by the Irish commemorating the 170$ donation sent by the Native American Choctaw tribe during the Irish famine in 1847
QO6k TIL that a naked and bleeding 14 year old boy was returned to Jeffery Dahmer’s home by police. He was strangled immediately after the authorities left the serial killer’s home.
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