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Scientists Talk About the Possibility of a Zombie Virus

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neD4W TIL that most people don't brush the roofs of their mouths when they brush their teeth. ???
Lk5xP TIL that scientists have built a device that can scan the pattern of stripes on zebras, as if it were a bar code, in order to differentiate between them.
Z8JWD TIL Police almost arrested Gary Ridgeway, The Green River killer, years earlier, in 1983. A boyfriend of a victim had seen her get into his truck before she vanished. The next day, he went with her father and found it; it belonged to Ridgeway. The tip wasn’t enough to get police to arrest him.
KO5Ga TIL That archaeologists in China found a surprising haul in one tomb, where they uncovered a bronze cooking pot. When they opened the pot, they found 2,400-year-old bone soup. Because of oxidization, the soup turned green, but it was still in liquid form, and the bones were still floating on top.
J17rV TIL during World War I, the U.S. government tried to rename hamburgers as "liberty sandwiches" to avoid the German-sounding name