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TIL that a Mosquito bite strengthens the human immune system
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TIL of the Blue People of Kentucky, carriers of a recessive genetic trait that that gives the sufferers blue skin tone. The the last known descendant was born in 1975.
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TIL that the highest-grossing stop motion animated film is Chicken Run (2000), beating out Coraline and The Nightmare Before Christmas.
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TIL the difference between a consonant and a vowel (not letters). Vowels are vowels because they have no blockage from the tongue. Consonants do.
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TIL about Belgian pie thrower Noël Godin who's pied the likes of Bill Gates and Nicolas Sarkozy. His sworn enemies are "authority, depressing laws, the return of moral order, nuclear power, and any form of political power." His pie of choice is a simple whipped cream and chocolate on a soft sponge.
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TIL that Alexei Leonov, the first human to perform a spacewalk, was unable to re-enter his craft due to his spacesuit inflating, creating immobility in his joints. He entered the airlock after depressurising the suit to critical safety levels.