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KO4rR TIL Kuru is found among people from New Guinea who practiced a form of cannibalism in which they ate the brains of dead people as part of a funeral ritual. This practice stopped in 1960, but cases of kuru were reported for many years afterward because the disease has a long incubation period
E14vd TIL that Australian scientists accidentally invented Wi-Fi while searching for black holes.
YmMZ TIL Leonard Nimoy directed “3 Men And A Baby”
86JP TIL that four college students developed a nail polish that turns black when exposed to date rape drugs including Rohypnol, Xanax, and GHB
rN950 TIL about Frank Hann, an Australian explorer who collected the cut off ears of Aboriginal people and kept their sliced off heads as souvenirs