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TIL there was an early 70’s #1 Italian song written entirely in english gibberish to mimic what english sounds like to a non-english speaker

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8eX6P TIL that during WWII it was discovered that several medications originally used to treat malaria are also effective in treating lupus. In fact, studies have shown that lupus patients on anti-malarials live longer than those who are not.
oBjVA TIL Al Roker and Lenny Kravitz are second cousins.
ep4Eb TIL Rotationplasty is a surgical procedure where, in case of bone tumor, they remove a child's lower leg, rotate it 180 degree and attach it to a thigh bone in a way that makes an ankle joint serve as a "new knee". It looks like having one leg shorter and rotated back.
nV8Y TIL in Russia, squirrels have been known to hunt dogs.
Ypn4r TIL that a live coelacanth (fish) was discovered in 1938 off the east coast of South Africa, 66 million years after it was believed to have gone extinct.