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TIL Around 1550 BC, the Ebers Papyrus was the first document to recognize many diseases such as cancer that are still uncured 3,500 years later.

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ZpW9Q TIL In the 1950s, the bureaucracy of Uruguay grew so large that there was little money left for operations. It got so bad that the Ministry of Public Works halted road work entirely because its whole budget was used to pay personnel and there was nothing left for fuel, equipment or materials.
4kdJb TIL There is a rare deer species discovered by and named after Theodore Roosevelt's sons
4k9wX Til that the movie adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm was financed by the C.I.A.
alyM TIL there are currently at least 6 “Antipopes,” each claiming to be the true leader of the Catholic Church.
mx6XR TIL about Massopora, a fungus which infects 13 and 17 year cycle cicadas. It can dissolve the gonads of males, cause their butts to fall off, turning them into "flying zombie salt shakers", and can also change the behavior of some males to make them trick other males into trying to breed with them.