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TIL: Low frequency vibrations may explain incidents where people have reported seeing or feeling the presence of a ghost.

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5xWD TIL: The Roundabout is a more efficient way to move cars through an intersection
9YAB6 TIL that a Brazilian man announced he would be burying his $500,000 Bentley so he could use it in the after life. After alot of critique about him wasting money it turned out that it was a PR stund for organ donations.
78k0p TIL Stone Age people used to practice trepanning – an early medical procedure that involved drilling a hole in the skull. The patients didn’t all die. Lots of skulls have been found with partly healed holes.
rNWay TIL: du Coudray, a midwife that saw dangerous childbirth practices in the 1700s. She made a cloth model .. with a uterus, placenta, etc…and real pelvic bones. It mimicked contractions and fluid seen during childbirth. She made textbook drawings for midwives to follow even if they couldn’t read.
rArw TIL despite claims of being inefficient, recycling is cheaper than mining and refining aluminum