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TIL about Chronic Wasting Disease, a contagious disease that infects the brains of deer, elk, and other ruminants. It causes weight loss, confusion, tremors, and is always fatal. Found in at least 24 states, scientists are unsure whether it can transfer to humans via contact or meat consumption.

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won5J TIL that the earliest form of sushi originated on the Mekong River (parts of Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam) between the 5th and 3rd centuries BC. To prevent the fish spoiling in the heat they were gutted packed with glutinous rice and stored in barrels. It spread to China and then Japan.
7PDP TIL the German government refuses to recognize Scientology as a religion. The organization has officially been labelled an ‘abusive business masquerading as a religion’.
NXgg8 TIL of the Eleusinian Mysteries- secret rituals of ancient Greece that spanned over two millennia. They involved a special drink (kykeon), visions, and conjuring of an afterlife. Discovered in Eleusinian temples were fragments of ergot (a fungus containing psychedelic alkaloids, pre-cursors to LSD).
vGx8 TIL Cap'n Crunch in the 70’s had a toy that could be modified to hack phone call lines.
jpej TIL: Space Ghost Coast to Coast was essentially killed by AOL.