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TIL: Plants uptake prions from contaminated soil and transmit it to animals

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rRJMe TIL about drunken boxing, founded by Liu Qizan, a murderer seeking refuge at a monastery who supposedly beat 30 monks so soundly while drunk they made his form a legitimate style
d87o7 TIL the mites that live on your face are related to ticks and spiders. They eat the oil from your skin, hide in your pores, have sex on your face while you sleep, and can tell researchers where your ancestors came from.
88rG TIL Marylin Manson purposively never did any interviews when he was getting blamed for the Columbine shooting because he would be contributing to giving the shooters what they wanted: media attention.
KOOLw TIL there was a bug stuck in a Van Gogh painting, and no one noticed it for 128 years.
n7Yo TIL In 1979, a number of people in Sweden called in sick with a case of being homosexual, in protest of homosexuality being classified as an illness