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gMOMD TIL in the half-century between April 1964 and April 2013, only one issue of Mad magazine was published which didn't contain new material by cartoonist Al Jaffee.
e0nbE TIL it is believed that one of the reasons for the paranoia and bizarre behavior that led to the Salem Witch Trials was caused because of a fungus, Ergot, which grows on rye plants and is a close cousin of LSD. Mistaking it for large rye grain, Salem villagers ground it into their bread and ate it.
ep74n TIL '5-Hour Energy' inventor Manoj Bhargava , pledged 99% of his net worth to improving the well-being of the world's less fortunate.
nW9EG TIL: Gerald Barnbaum posed as a doctor for over 20 years. He killed at least one patient due to not being a real doctor and impersonated different doctors in multiple medical facilities in San Francisco earning $400k by 1991. He even got a position where he did checkups on FBI agents.
4XyBR TIL In Paraguay the Guaraní language is more widely spoken than Spanish (52% of the rural population only speaks it), making the country a linguistic anomaly in Latin America