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TIL that during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, a young man’s brain was melted and then rapidly cooled by a superheated ash cloud, turning the brain tissue into natural glass, preserving its microscopic neuron structure

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nW0gG TIL Squirrel and Hedgehog is a North Korean children's cartoon that follows the titular anthropomorphic characters as they defend their home, Flower Hill, from the neighboring Weasel Empire. It's heavily speculated that the show is an allegory with Flower Hill representing North Korea.
ep58J TIL Tea kettles have been around for thousands of years.
pk5G TIL that a Polish patriot allowed himself to be captured by the nazis in WW2 to be sent to Auschwitz. Inside the camp, he formed a underground resistance group that did a variety of things such as morale and passing on Intel to the outside. First detailed report of the holocaust. He soon escaped.
VGaB TIL A woman named Augusta Ada King is regarded as the first computer programmer for her notes in the 1800’s on using computers to compute algorithms.
5V0Kp TIL Sobhuza II was king of Swaziland from 1899 to 1982 which is the longest reign of monarch in history