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TIL-Earwax has antimicrobial properties that reduce the viability of bacteria and fungus in the human ear.

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mxdVv TIL of Girgori Perelman, the only person in history to have solved one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems. After solving the Poincaré conjecture Perelman was offered the Field's Medal and $1 million prize money, he declined them both.
Jxg8 TIL that for the first time part of a dinosaur skeleton has been discovered in amber with the finding of a tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur
GYOk4 TIL that the Dani people from West New Guinea only differentiate between two colours, mili cool/dark and mola for warm/light
bGB4 TIL the Ancient Greeks had a rudimentary railway c.600B.C
kDa4 TIL of the Taxil Hoax, where a Frenchman spent 12 years as a Roman Catholic writing anti-Masonic accounts, only to reveal it was a prank on the Church. As he said “…I thought I would kill myself laughing at some of the things proposed, but everything went; there is no limit to human stupidity”