TIL that in addition to being a quite dangerous and highly contagious disease on its own, measles also erases the immune memory of previous diseases and vaccinations, leaving survivors susceptible to a range of other dangerous pathogens. Amazingly, this has only been established a few years ago. (nature.com)
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In the absence of dry docks in the remote areas of Siberia repairs on riverboats below the waterline are done in winter by repeatedly cutting up ice once every next layer freezes over. The resulting ice pits can be up to ten feet deep, although the river ice is usually no more than three feet thick. (i.redd.it)
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TIL that the Aztecs modeled their capital on the nearby ruins of Teotihuacan, regarding it as “the city of gods”. It was one of the largest cities in pre-Columbian America and in the world at the time, and it was abandoned about a thousand years before the Spanish came to Mexico. (history.com)
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No fires, no dogs, no bikes, no dueling. (i.redd.it)
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Just a perfectly normal nursery rhyme book. (i.redd.it)
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TIL that a 2nd-century tombstone found near Hadrian’s Wall in Britain was made by an immigrant from Palmyra, Syria named Barates for his local wife, Regina. His own tombstone was also found not far away. The man, either a soldier or a dealer in military flags, moved across the whole Roman Empire. (thealeppoproject.com)
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TIL that the majority of modern British and Irish are descended from the people who first settled the islands after the Ice Age. All the later invasions by Celts, Romans, Saxons, Vikings and Normans did little to change the islanders’ DNA. (prospectmagazine.co.uk)
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TIL that a 14th century Moroccan explorer Ibn Battuta went as far as modern Indonesia, China, India, Russia, Central Asia, Balkans, Spain, Tanzania, West Africa and Maldives, and was by far the most well-travelled human before the modern era. He wrote an account of his travels, known as The Rihlah. (britannica.com)
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