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TIL the USDA requires Salisbury Steaks to be a minimum of 65% meat, of which up to 25% can be pork.

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4Xrg6 TIL real-life Zombies exists in nature. One example is Zombie Ants, insects infected with a fungal parasite that controls their body and mind, making them crawl up plants where they stay put. When they die, their infectious fungal spores rain down on other ants below, spreading the contagion.
6JjZ TIL of Aphantasia, a condition where a person is unable to create imagery in their mind’s eye.
1a9D8 TIL that the vas deferens can regenerate (grow back) even if as much as five centimeters (two inches) of it have been surgically removed.
mxnaO TIL Raiders of the Lost Ark was originally going to have an elaborate fight scene between Indiana Jones and a master swordsman. But Harrison Ford was ill so they just had Indy pull out a gun and shoot him instead.
YwVZ TIL In 1979, following the disappearance of Dallas Eggbert, the popular role-playing game “Dungeons & Dragons” became the subject of a modern witch hunt called the “Satanic Panic”