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TIL 95% of people are naturally immune to leprosy

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kpY1 TIL the inventor of chocolate chip cookies sold the idea to Nestle in return for a lifetime supply of chocolate.
grjb TIL the first aircraft to be intentionally shot down by another aircraft went down on October 5, 1914, when the observer in one plane shot the pilot in another plane with a hand gun.
NGP1 TIL there is an amusement park in Nara, originally created to mimic DisneyLand in the US. The Park is now abandoned and looks awesome!
0d5XL TIL that the demand for Ozempic is so great that it has boosted Denmark's entire economy
OoDme TIL the farthest a person has ever fallen and survived is at least 33,330 feet. Serbian flight attendant Vesna Vulovic was blown out of a plane when a bomb went off in its baggage compartment in 1972. She had no memory of the event and wasn't afraid to fly afterward.