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TIL who Jody is in military cadence calls. Jody, is the imaginary character blamed for all the things that might go wrong back home while a soldier is deployed, such as losing one’s girlfriend or car.

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VMjGG TIL an Australian man suffered a sudden and severe form of meningitis at age 29, resulting in a 420-day coma, brain damage, paralysis and later death. The meningitis was caused by a parasite that entered his body 8 years prior after he ate a slug for a dare.
DQAne TIL When en route to prison following an arrest for witchcraft in 1619, Joan Flowers asked for bread as a substitute for the Eucharist. She claimed that something so blessed could not be consumed by a witch. She choked and died after the first bite.
GY575 TIL: the CIA sent agents around the world to find crocodile gallbladders, recruited Nazis, and secretly funded human experiments in Montreal
KpxR TIL that David Rockefeller, the great grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, at age 101 has recieved 7 heart transplants in his lifetime. More than anyone else alive.
OoLB7 TIL DNA produces electromagnetic signals. These signals can be transmitted electronically as WAV file. These signals can be re-emitted on distant pure water sample, where DNA can replicate through polymerase chain reaction (PCR) despite the absence of the original DNA in the new water sample.