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TIL Opossums are actually really helpful to humans.

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pDVb TIL that when you get motion sickness, it’s the result of your brain being tricked into thinking you have been poisoned. The discrepancy between your body feeling motion but not seeing it causes you to vomit the non-existent neurotoxin or poison
wowno TIL that high subcutaneous fat in the body can be protective against atherosclerosis(the buildup of fat in your arteries)
GA177 TIL that The Beatles Animated Series (1965-1967) was the first weekly television series to feature animated versions of real, living people.
PP4O TIL the only FDA approved manufacturer of coral snake antivenom in North America suddenly stopped producing it in 2003, leaving dwindling supplies that mostly expired in 2012. If you get bit by one now, chances are you are shit out of luck.
69GYm TIL after its initial discovery and isolation in London in 1928, penicillin was first mass-produced in 1942 using mould from a cantaloupe in a market in Peoria, Illinois. Just in time to prepare for the June 1944 WWII Allied invasion at Normandy.