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TIL of one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities with buildings around 1000 years old in the United States which predates European settlement

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rR0Wd TIL Toxoplasmosis, a disease spread by cats and mostly harmless to humans, is a deadly disease to kangaroos
LkX5V TIL it is estimated 70% of children with an egg allergy will outgrow it by age sixteen.
b99GZ TIL of Christian Gerhartsreiter, In 1995 while using the assumed identity "Clark Rockefeller", of the famed Rockefeller family, he married a successful businesswoman with whom he had a daughter
5V6k TIL that if Japan had waited about a week to bomb Pearl Harbor, there could have been a new state called Jefferson in the mountainous region of Northern California and Southern Oregon.
grjML TIL that phosphorus was the first new element to be discovered since ancient times. In 1669, a German alchemist tried boiling and condensing urine in order to make the fabled philosopher’s stone. Instead, he discovered a substance that glowed in the dark and named it “phosphorus mirabilis.”