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TIL that China harvests the internal organs of detained prisoners, including Tibetans, underground Christians, and practicioners of the peaceful Falun Gong spiritual movement.

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PY5ae TIL of Kuru, a rare lethal prion disease in humans - found only in cannibals that have eaten brains
yV5gV TIL : Crayfish burrows are made in lawns, called "Mud Chimneys"
8rDL TIL Marcus Allen is the only person to ever win a Heisman Trophy, College Footbal National Title, NFL MVP, a Super Bowl & Super Bowl MVP
nr5d TIL that during WWII, a German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway, and the crew met and then helped each other survive. Two of them then visited each other several years after the war was over as friends.
pYZxG TIL that in the 1950s and 60s, people could buy plastic screens to colorize their black & white TVs