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TIL of Kuru, a rare lethal prion disease in humans - found only in cannibals that have eaten brains

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69MyZ TIL in more than a hundred Brazilian telenovelas broadcast from the 1970s to the 1990s, 72 percent of the main female characters younger than 50 years old had no children. Brazilian telenovelas were responsible for an average 11 percent drop in fertility among women over 35.
DQNMj TIL over 4,000 monkeys live on an island in South Carolina.
KOdO9 TIL Joseph Stalin’s real name was Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. He decided to change his name to Stalin in 1902, meaning “steel” in Russian, which he believed would make him appear tough.
kOGr4 TIL that autistic people have around 27 billion neurons on average. For the sake of comparison, a non autistic adult has around 16 billion neurons, and a chimpanzee around has 8 billion.
xV04k Passenger jets and cruise ships normally gather key weather data. But full docks and empty skies make it hard to predict the details of incoming storms.