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TIL: Why don’t we eat rabbits? - The Straight Dope

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lvlV TIL that Dave Mustaine, Megadeth singer/guitarist, had to re-teach his left hand how to play guitar in 2002. He was diagnosed with radial neuropathy after falling asleep with his arm over the back of a chair leaving him unable to make a fist.
agKZ TIL that an English POW in WWI was granted permission to visit his dying mother and voluntarily returned a week later.
rRMMd TIL Since 1950 there has been a 83% rise of sedentary jobs in the United States.
oAbo TIL Goosebumps on the human body are remnants of when we had a lot of body hair. When scared, our hair would “fluff” out, making us look bigger, to scare off predictors.
DQ0KV TIL A large number of fossil records showed evidence of human-inflicted wounds on ancient pandas, indicating that pandas were brutally slashed to death by prehistoric man