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TIL that Farming Simulator has a competitive scene.

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EgnrV TIL a group of folks in New Guinea used to not want worms consuming the remains of their deceased loved ones and so decided to eat the bodies themselves. They removed the brain, mixed it with ferns, and cooked it in bamboo tubes. They ate everything at the funerals except the gall bladders
v1bLR TIL phages (a group of viruses) were supposed to be studied as antibacterial agents in human medicine, but were cut short by the discovery of penicillin shortly after. With today's increasingly drug-resistant bacteria, phages are being considered once again.
ADMQd TIL there is a prequel to "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" known as "Halloween is Grinch Night", which won the Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program in 1977.
4k6Gw TIL that expensive "crystal" (e.g. Waterford, Swarovski, Lalique) is actually just glass made with (most notably) lead oxide. Depending on the year and brand of your crystal, ingestion of lead is a possibility.
wK08 TIL If all the gold suspended in the world’s seawater were mined, each person on Earth could have about 9 pounds of gold.