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TIL that if you don’t sleep, your brain cells soak in their own filth. Sleep may clear out nervous system metabolites, which are waste products that can be toxic.

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ADK6a TIL the plague that wiped out 50% of 14th Century Europe was never really eradicated. There is an average of 7 cases of plague every year in the US. The disease usually spreads through flea bites or by eating tainted meat. It usually hits the rural west of the US. (2:04)
8lMb TIL Gary Numan is 13 days older than Gary Oldman
JYBVV TIL The Russians tried to interfere in the 1960 presidential election on behalf of Adlai Stevenson II, offering him propaganda support to help him "succeed". He declined their offer and informed the New York Times about the incident.
rELd TIL - The Bohemian Club holds an annual party in the Bohemian Grove in which members surround a 40 foot Owl Shrine with the voice of Walter Cronkite for a secret ceremony. Every republican U.S. president since 1923 has been a member of club.
XEOdR TIL Pangolins are believed to be the world's most trafficked mammal, accounting for as much as 20% of all illegal wildlife trade. Their scales can cost more than $3,000/kg on the black market.