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TIL Bacterial Meningitis is a very serious and easy to spread illness. Survivors are usually left with life-long disabilities. A makeup vlogger had all 4 limbs amputated from it.

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5YoYn TIL In 1976 Director Werner Herzog made a movie where almost all of the actors performed while under hypnosis ( HERZ AUS GLAS, Heart of Glass).
J17K4 TIL the Roman Republic practiced human sacrifice to win the Second Punic War, by burying people alive.
OoMa TIL Target has its own forensic lab that is on the same level as police labs and helps to solve armed robbery, rape, and murder cases.
nW8NW TIL, at first, Andrew Johnson wanted the Confederate leadership to be tried for treason, but Ulysses S. Grant threatened to resign and Johnson backed down.
Barb TIL, in the 1850’s, the South African Xhosa tribe had a teenage prophet who claimed all crops had to be burned and all cattle be killed, so that the spirits can sweep the British settlers to sea. 300k-400k cattle were killed, tragically resulting in famine that even caused cannibalism.