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TIL Some animals in Yosemite still carry the Black Plague

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P1jZg TIL When Emperor Augustus visited the tomb of Alexander the Great, he allegedly accidentally knocked off a piece of Alexander’s mummified nose.
xVA5g TIL The Instant Pot pressure cooker can serve as a laboratory autoclave where more expensive units are not available (E.g. remote labs) or attainable (E.g. lack of funding). It even passes the Geobacillus stearothermophilus spore inactivation test.
vyVB TIL the fastest jet ever produced is the SR-71 Blackbird. It could travel faster than 3.5 times the speed of sound and its top speed is STILL classified.
LkxL9 TIL the Bubonic plague, the cause of the Black Death, is still around. Congo, Madagascar and Peru have several cases a year. Isolated cases occur in the United States and China as well.
Wk5bY TIL taxidermists can preserve an animal with its own brain matter through a process called "brain tanning," and an animal has enough brain matter to preserve its entire body.