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TIL 95% of people are naturally immune to leprosy

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ne0ed TIL that apple pie isn't really an American dish!
nWBPP TIL while filming the witch burning scene in Day of Wrath, director Carl Theodor Dreyer decided to leave the actress tied to a wooden ladder while the crew went for lunch. He used her genuine distress to film the scene
8m7X TIL in 2002 an asteroid was discovered in a strange orbit around Earth. It was later found to be the third-stage booster rocket from the Apollo 12 moon landing.
16xlO TIL western actor Jack Elam, known for his damaged eye, lost the use of that eye at a Boy Scout meeting at age 11 when another scout stabbed him with a pencil.
AND64 TIL about bi-paternal twins in which a woman becomes impregnated by two different men, resulting in fraternal half-siblings