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TIL bananas are facing extinction due to a fungal disease

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Br1Wd TIL the man who is credited with launching America’s fitness revolution and popularizing jogging’s health benefits died of a heart attack while jogging.
XEW1E TIL about Cargo Cults, an indigenist belief system in which adherents perform rituals which they believe will cause a more technologically advanced society to deliver goods. These cults were first described in Melanesia in the wake of contact with allied military forces during the 2nd World War.
RWJ7 TIL “The Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman was only able to get his comic green-lit because he told Image Comics that there would be a plot twist revealing that the zombie apocalypse was caused by aliens who were using the zombies to weaken humanity’s defenses. It was a lie.
wWJ6 TIL the distinctive sound of the Martians speech in Mars Attacks was made by reversing the sound of a duck’s quack.
J1D4Q TIL that 10% of Japan's population is now aged 80 or older