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TIL about The Dancing Plague of 1518 - A case of mass hysteria in Strasbourg where hundreds of people danced uncontrollably for days, leading to several deaths.

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W8wN TIL Joseph Stalin ordered the development of a half man half ape, the creature would be resilient to to pain beyond a normal man and would not care about the quality of food given. When Stalins top scientist failed to do so, he had him executed.
nedrb TIL the Teletubbies are canonically racially diverse and they live in the "Tubbytronic Superdome"
PRRV TIL the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NYC is so polluted that unidentifiable new forms of microbiological life have arisen in its sludge
0dw6R TIL about the Banquet of Blood, an 8th century banquet during which the Abbasids wiped out 80 members of the preceding Umayyads. The dying and dead were covered with a leather carpet and the meal proceeded.
pl7b TIL there have been cases of animal deaths by mosquito asphyxiation: being surrounded by a swarm so thick that you inhale mosquitoes until you can’t breath and die