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TIL 95% of people are naturally immune to leprosy

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oRV1L TIL A lot of early North American's used dried out corn cobs to clean themselves up before toilet paper was invented.
loEjG TIL that Opossums have 13 nipples, arranged in a circle of 12 with one in the middle.
KOgMa TIL the 1679 Habeas Corpus Act was only passed in Parliament because its supporters jokingly counted a fat lord as ten votes and the opposition never noticed
J76V TIL that Alexandre Dumas, the French author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, was black.
b9QvQ Today I learned that Borges, Neruda and Nabokov were the losers of the controversial 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature which was awarded to Soviet novelist Mikhail Sholokov.