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TIL There were only 3 billion humans in 1960

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5YOdQ TIL about Rabbit Show Jumping, aka "Kaninhop", which is basically equestrian sports but scaled down for bunnies.
b6Ddj TIL researchers identified traces of cocaine in the brain tissue of two people buried in Italy in the 17th century. The discovery challenges longstanding assumptions about the drug, which was thought to not have spread throughout Europe until the 19th century.
7ApZ TIL in Philadelphia there are such things as “courtesy cards” which are often given to the friends or family of a police officer and they allow the user to get out of minor offenses such as speeding or running a stop sign if given to a police officer while they’re writing the ticket.
oBxG8 TIL that Wendigo psychosis is a disorder, historically reported among native peoples in Canada, in which a person feels the need to consume human flesh. In 1878, a man suffering from it named Swift Runner killed and ate his family despite food supplies being available at a nearby outpost.
Y7D5r TIL that the 1994 film “The Mask,” was based on a much more violent comic book. The protagonist, Stanley Ipkiss, goes on a revenge spree, murders a number of cops, and is eventually shot in the back and killed by his girlfriend, Kathy, who sees the Mask for what it is, and plans to destroy it.