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Jul 08, 2020

TIL: Researchers at Yale University School of Medicine devised a system roughly analogous to a dialysis machine, called BrainEx, that restores circulation and oxygen flow to a dead brain. Using BrainEx, they restored restored cellular function in 32 pig brains that had been dead for over four hours.

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Jul 01, 2020

TIL: Two teenagers girls seduced and hunted Nazi's like "Dexter"

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Jun 13, 2020

TIL that Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, was thought to be dead when his brother died. Newspapers and obituaries declared “The Merchant of Death is Dead.” Alfred Nobel, shocked by his impact, dedicated all of his money to creating the Nobel Prize to reclaim somewhat of a meaningful death.

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May 30, 2020

TIL Refrigerators have magnetic strips so they are easy to open from both the inside and outside. In 1956 the Refridgerator Safety Act was passed to protect kids that would die inside abandoned refrigerators while playing around.

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May 04, 2020

TIL that Reno/Tahoe was the divorce capital of North America in the early 1900s because of its very lax divorce laws and only requiring 24 weeks of residence to file for divorce.

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Apr 22, 2020

TIL 1956 USA passed the „Refrigerator Safety Act“. Early refrigerators would only open from the outside and trapped/suffocated children. Magnetic strips were used on fridge doors to create an air-proof seal, but would open from the inside with a light push. Even tests with children were conducted.

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Apr 13, 2020

TIL that graves became 6 feet deep as a result of the plague in 1665.

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Apr 03, 2020

TIL in 2012, a Montana man attempting a Bigfoot hoax dressed in a camouflage sniper suit and walked down an interstate highway at night. He was struck by two cars in quick succession, the drivers unable to see him because of his camouflage suit.

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Mar 05, 2020

TIL Philadelphia Threw a WWI Parade That Gave Thousands of Onlookers the Flu

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Feb 07, 2020

TIL that you absolutely can pick up baby birds and their parents will not reject them as a result.

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Feb 05, 2020

Today I learned that the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, carried her dead husbands heart wherever she went.

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Jan 19, 2020

TIL that when the Hope Diamond is put under ultraviolet light it will continue to glow an orangish red color for almost 30 seconds after the light source is no longer present, longer than any diamond in existence.

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Jan 15, 2020

TIL - the "Existential Slap" is the experience a dying person has when they know, at a 'gut level' death is close.

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Dec 16, 2019

TIL Pooping can be a life-threatening experience for a Sloth. They take a dump around once a week and have terrible constipation. A single poop can be up to a third of the Sloth's body weight.

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Nov 11, 2019

TIL It is so cold in Svalbard, they cannot properly bury anyone in a coffin, since the body won't decompose.

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Sep 29, 2019

TIL that people can die from simply giving up on life. Senior research John Leach said “give-up-itis” can kill in just three weeks without help.

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Sep 17, 2019

TIL a 14 year old boy in China was killed anally after the gas cylinder in the base of his office chair (the part that allowed the user to adjust the seat up and down) exploded and sent chunks of the metal seat up his rectum, causing him to bleed to death.

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Jul 20, 2019

TIL about the “Euthanasia” rollercoaster, a theoretical rollercoaster designed to use G-Force to starve the brain of oxygen as a humane and more exciting way of being euthanized.

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Jun 17, 2019

TIL it is a myth that adult birds abandon their young if handled by humans as birds have a very poor sense of smell.

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May 24, 2019

TIL about “mad honey,” a honey made by bees gathering pollen from rhododendrons. “To put it mildly, just one spoonful can get you as effed up as a football bat” -

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