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TIL They developed and implemented Pacemakers powered by a Plutontum 238 source, people are still living with them til this day

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Eoyp TIL that inside a 2,700-year-old grave of a shaman, a large leather basket and wooden bowl was found filled with 789g of cannabis, superbly preserved by climatic and burial conditions.
lKp1 TIL a serial killer in Southern California is alleged to have used some flesh from one of his victims in chili he made to for a chili cook-off. He won.
EeGp TIL: When launched in the 1950’s Betty Crocker’s cake mix sales were dismal when first launched, until psychologist Ernest Dichter suggested they remove ‘the barrier of guilt’ of the ease of the recipes, by adding a sense of participation. This was remedied by the instructions to 'add an egg’.
x6glo TIL about a historical sport called goose pulling, in which horsemen galloped full-speed to tear the head off a greased goose (sometimes hare) suspended from a rope. It's still practiced today but with a dead goose.
yQJdw TIL of the Blue People of Kentucky, carriers of a recessive genetic trait that that gives the sufferers blue skin tone. The the last known descendant was born in 1975.