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TIL that Russian porn star Lola Taylor has offered to have sex with the scientist who finds a cure for the current virus

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yQo8V TIL that John Snow in 1854 found out that Cholera is a water-borne disease.
wond1 TIL that Pope Gregory IX issued a Papal Bull declaring that cats bore Satan’s spirit, which subsequently led to huge numbers of cats being killed throughout Europe producing an indirect cause of the Bubonic plague spread by fleas on rats, which would otherwise have been hunted by the dead cats.
KYGkB TIL that domain of Saudi Binladin Group's Internet domain name, "saudi-binladin-group.com", was registered on September 11, 2000, for one year, expiring on the same day as the September 11 attacks. The group was founded by Muhammad bin Ladin, father of Osama bin laden.
1aEGP TIL The history of the Cantonese, or Yue, language is more than 2,000 years old, making it older than Mandarin, the official language of China, which only has 700 to 800 years of history
LQxgd TIL since 2000 the Federation of Québec Maple Syrup Producers maintained an "International Strategic Reserve" of maple syrup of more than 45 million kilograms across multiple warehouses in rural Québec towns. A barrel of maple syrup can be worth around 18 times the value of a barrel of US crude oil