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TIL the antibiotics used to treat the sex disease chlamydia can't be used in koala bears because the delicate balance of gut bacteria necessary to digest eucalyptus leaves becomes compromised

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6Q4Q TIL there is a site very much like eBay, except you buy and sell souls.
oB6Po TIL a study in 2014 found men are generally more spiteful than women and young adults more spiteful than older ones, and that spitefulness generally cohabits with traits like callousness, Machiavellianism and poor self-esteem.
E1aod TIL Tyrannosaurus rex lived closer in time to the release of Jurassic Park (1993) than the actual Jurassic period.
b9vYN TIL in the 1970’s a man in his mid-30’s committed suicide by jumping off the Gold Gate Bridge. The suicide note that he left behind in his apartment wrote “I’m going to walk to the bridge. If one person smiles at me on the way, I will not jump.”
KYoL9 TIL under German wine law, it is completely illegal to ferment a mechanically-frozen grape