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TIL A five-year review of dog-bite injuries from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, published in 2009 in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, found that almost 51 percent of the attacks were from pit bulls

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e1M4 TIL a half-jewish man was used in Nazi recruitment posters and dubbed “the ideal German soldier”, before being kicked out for being too Jewish.
OBlg TIL that the National Review, a leading conservative / republican publication, advocated for marijuana legalization in its cover article … in 1972.
aB89 TIL the “Solar storm of 1859” was so powerful that telegraphs continued to operate after being disconnected, auroras were seen in the tropics, and miners in the Rockies thought the sun had risen early.
6EaK7 TIL that there was an elective monarchy in Africa called the Kingdom of Nri that existed from the 9th century CE to the year 1911.
QJ5RL TIL Horses are injected with snake venom to produce antivenom