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R5YK9 TIL researchers solved the mystery of kuru (the "laughing death") among the Fore tribe in Papua New Guinea by realizing the disease was transmitted during funerary cannibalism and proving it by infecting chimpanzees with infected human brain tissue.
AN5Jd TIL a man from Georgia, US, was found guilty of 93 counts of dogfighting and 10 counts of cruelty to animals and sentenced to 475 years in prison
rNrkM TIL that the sample for Jay-Z’s song for “Hard Knock Life” was only cleared after Jay-Z wrote a letter to Annie’s composer claiming that seeing the musical on Broadway as a child changed his life. Charles Strouse, the musical’s composer, gave Jay-Z permission despite the entire story being made up.