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TIL There was once a highly contagious disease that caused people to start dancing uncontrollably!

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WNZ4 TIL A 16 year-old girl raped a 12 year-old boy, got pregnant, and then the Kansas Supreme Court found the boy liable for child support
6EOoW TIL bacteria from chronic gum disease has been found in brains suffering from Alzheimer's. Bad oral hygiene has been a known risk factor for dementia but researchers now suspect that bacteria from gum disease may somehow cross into the brain and cause or worsen Alzheimer's symptoms.
KOjPJ TIL Every year approximately 16 million gallons of oil runs off pavement into streams, rivers and eventually oceans in the United States. This is more oil than was spilled by the Exxon Valdez in 1989.
Brkpk TIL Betty White was good friends with famed author John Steinbeck. White's husband Allen Ludden attended the same school as Steinbeck's wife Elaine. The couples became close friends and Steinbeck gave an early draft of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech to Ludden for his birthday.
mYxv TIL that while a Westboro spokeswoman was boasting about how the church foiled Anonymous on a radio talk show, an Anonymous spokesman called in and hacked the church’s website in real time on the air.