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TIL In 1997 a number of people from Kentucky developed CJD (aka human mad cow disease). It was discovered that all had consumed squirrel brains.

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R5eB1 TIL that Peter Cetera's vocal style is the result of a broken jaw from being assaulted by marines at a baseball game. He performed Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" with his jaw wired shut, and from then on he always sang with his jaw clenched even after it healed.
OGJe TIL that coal plants release more radiation than nuclear power plants
Orye TIL in the ancient Olympics, false-starters were whipped
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