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TIL it's national cheese fondue day and bunch more others

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KOWE9 TIL about Formula E, which is similar to F1 but includes real life speed boost zones akin to Mario Kart, and provides social-media powered speed boosts to drivers
G8Wg TIL Spock’s ‘Live long and prosper’ hand signal is ancient Jewish symbol Leonard Nimoy remembers seeing as a boy.
X07GX TIL that not everyone with amyloid in their brain have Alzheimer’s disease, and that only those with abnormal immune activation do.
AYKl TIL there exists a photograph of a man who served in the Revolutionary War under George Washington. He is also believed to be the earliest born person ever captured in a photo.
p8BMO TIL in the middle ages priests treated rabies by sticking religious ornaments, heated until red-hot, onto bite wounds. This actually worked because they were unknowingly cauterising and sterilising the wound.