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TIL China's surveillance is named SKYNET

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e005 TIL that in 1967, German lab workers working with Ugandan monkeys came down with an illness. They then documented their own illness, and eventually they isolated the virus.
5Y5Jk TIL Mormon founder Joseph Smith said that people lived on the moon, and the second Mormon prophet, Brigham Young, taught that people lived on the Sun
obeA TIL In 2010, the Republic of Fiji lost its declaration of independence, and so had to ask Britain for a photocopy
Bwad TIL many plants that we consider to be weeds are edible natives to North America, and among them is cattail (Typha) which one can eat the roots and stock of raw or cooked while the newly developing flower-head can be eaten like corn-on-the-cob and has a corn-like taste.
w8r7 TIL Roald Dahl (author of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’)was a real life James Bond who seduced women to gain intelligence during WWII.