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TIL: Dementia, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's Disease are cause by mechanisms similar to that a Prions

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VrND TIL that Japanese death row inmates aren’t given their execution date until a few hours prior and their family isn’t told until after they’re already dead.
1EZX TIL the cuneiform writing system, which was used by humans for millennia, was indecipherable for more than 2000 years. A British army officer decoded the language in 1837 after recording and studying symbols he found in Persian cliff-sides.
m1Nbo TIL that Nuclear Submarines, with a single load of food supplies, can go around the world Twice or make the round trip from New York to Liverpool 7 times without having to surface once.
xV7Bw TIL that the "China" that actually helped found the UN and sat on the Security Council until 1971 was the Taiwanese government. After this they started losing a lot of international recognition.
ggLy TIL that Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, of TLC, was in a car accident that killed a young boy, Bayron Lopez. She mourned the boy and felt that death “made a mistake” due to their similar last names and it was her that was supposed to die. Two weeks later she died in another car accident.