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TIL Robert Ross won a Nobel prize for his work on how to control epidemics

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mxevR TIL of Alexander of Abonoteichus, a roman era cult leader who made people believe a sock-puppet was a snake-god. He was so influential even the emperor joined his cult, and the few sceptics who opposed him were christians, epicureans and writer Lucian of Samosata, who tried to expose him as a fraud
KY94G TIL that the universe's largest diamond is found on the white dwarf BPM 37093, which core crystallized turning it mostly into a diamond. The diamond is 10 billion trillion trillion carats, which made scientists give it the nickname Lucy after the iconic Beatles song " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
D0bP TIL In all of Ohio in 1895, there were only two cars on the road, they crashed into each other.
grxGW TIL: A six year old boy is the youngest soldier of World War 2.
nKeY TIL Facebook’s mobile app discretely eavesdrops on your conversations using your phone’s mic to “serve you a better experience”