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Jun 18, 2020

TIL an Australian man suffered a sudden and severe form of meningitis at age 29, resulting in a 420-day coma, brain damage, paralysis and later death. The meningitis was caused by a parasite that entered his body 8 years prior after he ate a slug for a dare.

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Jun 02, 2020

TIL: Someone hacked into a cable broadcast in Chicago in 1987 wearing a “Max Headroom” mask. Over 30 years later, the hacker still hasn’t been identified.

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May 06, 2020

TIL that a Dutch scientist is working with other scientists to create glow-in-the-dark trees in hopes to use them as streetlights

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May 01, 2020

TIL that the infamous Heaven's Gate cult supported themselves by doubling as a moderately successful web design firm. Their clients included the San Diego Polo club and a Christian music store.

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Mar 28, 2020

TIL of Domino's "Paving for Pizza" campaign which offers cities $5,000 grants to help them repair potholes. In exchange, cities are to fill potholes & stencil on a Domino’s logo. For example, Milford, DE got 40 "Domino's brand pothole fills"; Athens, GA got 150; Bartonville, TX got 8.

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Mar 24, 2020

TIL that bears get tapeworms from eating the salmon. They often extrude from the bear’s backside and can trail behind them for up ten feet.

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Feb 13, 2020

TIL it is a myth that bats use their echolocation to deftly maneuver around one another. High speed cameras show that bats crash into each other all the time.

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Jan 19, 2020

TIL according to a new 3D model of the Milky Way, our galaxy is warped and shaped like the popular brand of potato chip. “I’d say that it is shaped like a Pringle” said Radek Poleski, an astronomer at Ohio State University who helped to create the new map.

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Oct 15, 2019

TIL that the first spy satellites would eject capsules of photographic film back to earth, which would then be caught mid-flight by aeroplanes and returned to ground for photos to be developed.

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Sep 18, 2019

TIL that there is a new state of matter that exists and it is known as time crystals. These lab-created time crystals are structures that repeat periodically in time rather than space.

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Aug 16, 2019

TIL about Hookworms. Parasites that run rampant in the southern US that cause lethargy, intense brain fog, and a distended belly. This is where the stereotype of a “dumb, lazy, potbellied southerner” comes from.

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Aug 11, 2019

TIL about Anatoli Brouchkov - a Russian scientist who injected himself with a 3.5 million year old strain of bacteria just to see what would happen.

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Aug 04, 2019

TIL about Dr Barry Marshall who was convinced that H.pylori bacteria causes stomach ulcers, but no one believed him. Since it was illegal to test his theory on humans, he drank the bacteria himself, developed ulcers within days, treated them with antibiotics and went to win a Nobel prize.

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Jun 09, 2019

TIL: Television's Most Infamous Hack Is Still a Mystery 30 Years Later

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May 03, 2019

TIL that farmers in USA are hacking their John Deere tractors with Ukrainian firmware, which seems to be the only way to actually *own* the machines and their software, rather than rent them for lifetime from John Deere.

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Apr 17, 2019

TIL that 11% of Americans think that HTML is an STD.

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