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TIL eight of the fourteen vacines that are routinely recommended today were developed by an American microbiologist named Maurice Hilleman.

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b9mw7 TIL that in 2012, Taliban spokesman Yousef Ahmadi accidentally used 'CC' instead of 'BCC' when sending a press release, thereby exposing the names and emails of more than 400 Taliban press contacts.
N7QrQ TIL of The 1 Percent Rule. This rule states that only 1% of an Internet community creates new content. The rest of the community is divided between content editors (9%) and content viewers (90%).
EMPd TIL the National Day of Prayer, which this year is today, was unsuccessfully challenged in court by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The court said they are free to oppose it, but “they are not entitled to silence the speech of which they disapprove.”
0dGr5 TIL the line “Brian Wilson is a genius” gained popularity in 1966 when the Beach Boys’ publicist Derek Taylor started calling Brian Wilson a "genius" as part of an effort to rebrand the Beach Boys and legitimize Wilson as a serious artist on par with the Beatles and Bob Dylan.
nelVY TIL that men have better spatial abilities than women, such as with mazes, mental rotation, and navigation. This is observed in other mammals too. The leading evolutionary explanation is that males tend to have larger habitat ranges than females