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TIL armadillos carry leprosy and caused a spike of leprosy cases in Florida in 2015

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LQro9 TIL of a device MIT created that can read ancient, fragile books and literature without touching them by shooting the pages with beams of radiation.
6EQym TIL Paro Airport in Bhutan is so dangerous that only eight pilots are qualified enough to land there. (Pilots maneuver between mountains, fly within feet of houses, and land on a narrow, 6,500-foot runway.)
EgPp7 TIL that giving a newborn baby too much water can make it sick
N6mE TIL that big educational companies like Pearson have allowed plugs (ads) for consumer products in their standardized tests
ayxy TIL some Viking runes are simply graffiti, translated as “Ingigerth is the most beautiful of all women” or “Tholfir Kolbeinsson carved these runes high up.”