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TIL a football referee was injured in Maine after being shot by a loaded cannon

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5Y0B9 TIL Carleton Gajdusek, who first described the prion disease kuru, had the rare distinction of being a Nobel prizewinner and a convicted child molester. As a medical researcher he studied kuru, an incurable disease that affects the Fore tribe in Papua New Guinea, and published 150 papers
9mMD TIL that a bite from the Lone Star tick can cause people to develop an allergy to red meat, including beef and pork. This specific allergy is related to the transfer of a carbohydrate called alpha-gal.
9pZ7 TIL blackberries and strawberries are not berries, but tomatoes and avocados are.
gvZ8 TIL Venice Island was built on a foundation of tree trunks. 1200 years later, those same trunks still support almost all of central Venice.
kOE8g TIL some of the earliest carbon steel was made by the Haya people of East Africa ~2000 years ago in furnaces that reached 1800°C