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TIL Polio can be transmitted via ass-to-mouth

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ADKog TIL that 150,000 people die everyday
vmXr TIL that the Hogwarts Express from the movies is a real train in Scotland and not computer generated
wXk8 TIL “Big Ben” isn’t the name of the clock tower, but only a bell inside it. The clocktower is actually called “Elizabeth Tower”.
R7LY6 TIL In 1979 Sir William Arthur Lewis won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, becoming the first black person to win a Nobel Prize in a category other than peace
pXQO TIL that a single brown diamond found in Brazil has convinced geologists that there is an ocean deep inside the earth, between upper and lower mantles (about 500km/300mi deep).