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TIL that “Expecto Patronum” roughly translates to “I await a protector” in Latin

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r7lW TIL that 49% of American adults eat at least one sandwich on any given day, according to the CDC. The most common fillings are lettuce, mayonnaise, tomatoes, mustard, catsup, and ham.
WnQN TIL about the Dyatlov Pass Incident, in which 9 hikers died. They “tore out” of their tents at night in sub-zero temps. 4 died of hypothermia, 3 had fractured skulls, 1 had brain damage but no physical trauma, and 1 had her eyes and tongue removed. Their deaths remain a mystery.
grdBb TIL an infection model explains why spiral galaxies have spiral arms—the deaths of massive stars trigger star formation elsewhere (infection), while their vicinities recover due to the dispersed material; this propagation/recovery and the galaxy's rotation leads to the spiral structures
JYnOQ TIL A woman had her body frozen and sliced into 2700 pieces so they could reconstruct her digitally for science
xvbD TIL that during construction of the Panama Canal, Ancon Hospital, one of the best hospitals in the tropics, kept potted plants in its open-air atrium in bowls of standing water to keep away ants, not realizing that the mosquitoes that bred in such water were the carriers of malaria and yellow fever.