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TIL that Jews were blamed (and killed) for the spread of the Black Death due to being somewhat unaffected by it… (It was due to their isolation & better hygiene.)

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KO7PG TIL That out of the top four known most prolific serial killers, three came from Colombia.
BrGdd TIL that the concept for the show Quantum Leap (traveling back to different moments in history) came from a discarded premise for "Galactica 1980", which would have seen Apollo traveling back to different spots in Earth's history to fix changes made by Baltar.
ag80 TIL After Rosanne Bar said Tom Arnold had a small penis, he replied “even a 747 looks small if it lands in the Grand Canyon”.
Bgvx TIL That Unpaid Internships Are Illegal In The UK Because “they don’t comply with National Minimum Wage legislation”
6ERrW TIL Scientists managed to capture an image of a newborn planet that was still forming in the disk of gas and dust around its star.