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TIL around 10% of the population of Canada were infected by the 2009 Swine Flu

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OoP0X TIL A field sobriety test doesn't determining whether you're sober or not or even to what degree you are intoxicated. It is simply a means for a cop to obtain evidence that you are intoxicated even if you're not.
gMr97 Ever since Morpheus explained how the machines use humans as batteries in The Matrix, we’ve been fascinated by the idea. But can the human body actually generate enough current to do anything useful? We decided to find out, by asking experts how long it would take a human brain to charge an iPhone.
4XWJ6 TIL that Marie Curie named Polonium after her native Poland
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9wpNM TIL that the timeframe between 9 BC and 9 AD is known as the "0s". The world population at the time is speculated to have been 150-300 million people, 3.75% of the population today.