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TIL there is a species of lizard that removes Lyme disease in ticks. A protein in the lizard's blood kills the bacterium in the tick's gut responsible for the disease.

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7roL7 TIL That J. R. R. Tolkien began work on The Hobbit one day early in the 1930s, when he was marking School papers. He found a blank page. Suddenly inspired, he wrote the words, “In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.”
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