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TIL of Lyodura, a brain surgery material that, unknown to the buyers, was tissue harvested by the seller from black market human corpses and carried fatal incurable prion disease. Over 150 people were infected before its ban in 1996

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BrZ6d TIL : This schoolteacher Mary Chase Walker (pictured) was boycotted in 1866 in San Diego, California, after lunching in public with a black woman.
ZgLa TIL the Southern Baptist denomination was created for the sole purpose of supporting slavery in the South, they didn’t apologize for their stance on slavery until 1995.
VMP8D TIL that there are annual pilgrimages to Central Oregon, USA to visit the last Blockbuster video store in the world.
gr9bb TIL That the movie The Breakfast Club was named after a nickname for morning detention at the high school the movie was filmed at
XdGD TIL a die hard football fan ran onto the field during a game and was sentenced to serve his jail time during the Super Bowl. He was also ordered not to watch or listen to the game.