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TIL the identity of the 'Somerton Man' was solved after 73 years, with the help of forensic genealogy

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nWdlr TIL about the Tanganyika laughter epidemic of 1962, where uncontrollable laughter spread among hundreds of people in Tanzania, leading to the temporary closure of schools and affecting entire communities.
WkvP9 Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan had flattened the curve. Then travelers from the US and Europe began reimporting the virus. So, here began round two.
dM5j TIL in the first draft of the Anchorman script, the story was about a planeload of news anchors who crash in the mountains and discover that the plane which they collided was carrying monkeys and martial arts equipment, leading to a battle between cannibalistic newsmen and star-throwing monkeys
yV0yM TIL Nuclear Fission was first achieved by Enrico Fermi in 1934 by accident, it took 2 German chemists 4 years to realize he had split the atom
WbGY TIL Congress wrote the Freedom of Information Act so that they are exempt from it (among a list of many other laws)