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TIL that primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, caused by Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba, is almost always lethal even with treatment

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jgkN TIL Notorious English pirate captain Benjamin Hornigold (1680–1719) once attacked a ship off the coast of Honduras just to replace his crew’s hats (they had drunkenly lost them the night before)
7rX6P TIL Batman was originally going to have blond hair, a small domino mask, and no desire for a secret identity. It resembled nothing like a bat and nothing how we know Batman today. Thankfully, Bill Finger stepped in and added some major changes to resemble the legendary Batman, we know today
e0G65 TIL it only takes the average person 10-20 minutes to fall asleep
69wD7 TIL that the British created the largest non-nuclear explosion at the time in 1947. They stuffed a German bunker with 4,000 torpedo heads, 9,000 depth charges and 91,000 artillery shells; the explosion, equivalent to 3200 tons of TNT, was felt 70 km away and generated a 1+ km tall mushroom cloud.
4kpR5 Today I learned that Leon Trotsky’s great granddaughter is the director of the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse