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TIL Malaria is thought to be responsible for the death of about half of all people who ever lived.

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Z8ykB TIL Mel Brooks was a mine clearer in WW2 “I was a combat engineer. Isn’t that ridiculous? The two things I hate most in this world are combat and engineering.”
v1p1R TIL of Alexis Carrel, a surgeon who pioneered vascular sutures after other doctors claimed the French president Sadi Carnot could not have been saved after being assassinated with a knife
M7DaV TIL Baader–Meinhof phenomenon is when you learn/talk about something and then see it everywhere. Or is it just our iPhones listening to us?!
ZBjo TIL The Hudson’s Bay Company, now a Canadian department store, is 347 years old and once controlled 3,000,000 sq. miles of land.
mXJP TIL that 22% of Americans can name all five members of the Simpsons family, but only 0.1% of Americans can name all five First Amendment freedoms.