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TIL that the Plague of the Middle Ages likeky did not make 10% Europeans resistant to HIV by increasing the frequency of a protective genetic mutation (CCR5-Ä32), scientists DNA tested 4900 year old skeletons and found the mutation was already common in the Bronze Age

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1agn8 TIL Former Triple Crown winner American Pharoah has sex 3 times a day everyday and his owners charge a fee of $200,00. This leads to an annual revenue of about $30,000,000.
QrxX TIL that NASA no longer has the original recording of the moon landing because it has been recorded over and reused. NASA admitted it back in 2006
nWyEr TIL that Dennis Hof, who owned several brothels, won a Nevada election despite dying a month prior
g1D9 TIL that your poop is not mostly fiber. By mass, it’s mostly dead and alive bacteria. Mostly alive.
nWoOo TIL Surgeons that grew up playing video games more than 3 hours per week make 37% fewer errors and had a 33% faster completion rate on performing laparoscopic surgery