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TIL: When You’re Sleep-Deprived, Your Brain Literally Starts Eating Itself

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MVMK TIL that on May 30, 1883, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge was going to collapse caused a stampede, which killed at least twelve people. To prove the bridge was safe, P. T. Barnum led a parade of 21 elephants over it.
lm8B TIL Despite having survived on Earth for millions of years, Sturgeon are now more critically endangered than any other species due to increased demand for caviar, over fishing and pollution.
VObD TIL a plague wiped out millions of Native Americans just before the pilgrims came, leaving the new settlers cleared land and fields already planted with corn
5Vlrr TIL the US army would take dead bodies that were donated by family for the purpose of medical research and instead use them to test the destructiveness of bombs
awkgo TIL Rolling Jubilee, a Strike Debt project that buys debt for pennies on the dollar, but instead of collecting it, abolishes it.