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TIL that the BlueSky social media network has the same name as its current CEO, Lantian "Jay" Graber, whose first name means "blue sky" in Mandarin

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P1QPg TIL: the genes that helped people survive of the Black Plague are now causing the decendants of those survivors to develop autoimmune diseases.
Mdo7 TIL that eating any portion of the human brain can cause Prion disease, which is incurable and comes with a high mortality rate.
xD57 TIL H. Jon Benjamin (voice of Archer and Bob from Bob’s Burgers) has an entire jazz album where he plays piano, despite not knowing how to actually play piano.
OB7g TIL the TV show Mad Men sparked a 10% increase in breast implant surgery in the UK
VMWNm TIL that due to aristocratic ethos only amateurs could officially participate in the Olympics, professional athletes were banned. The Eastern bloc got around this rule with state-sponsored "full-time amateur athletes". The rule was eventually loosened in the 70s and abolished in 1988.