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TIL The inventor of waterbeds tried to use Jello

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Eg6nP TIL Hiram Bingham wasn’t the first to rediscover Machu Picchu. Peruvian farmer and explorer Agustín Lizárraga had arrived 9 yrs earlier, leaving an inscription "A. Lizárraga 1902." Sadly, he died one year after Bingham’s arrival, and his inscription was erased by Bingham for "preservation reasons."
Kdl9 TIL: That men are more likely to be victims of dating violence than women. And that women are more likely than men to “stalk, attack, and abuse” their partners.
Lk8Ev TIL That, in 1986, former senator Al D'Amato once filibustered a bill by reading the District of Columbia phonebook.
Wkred TIL that Bill Nye's family has a history of a neurological disorder called ataxia and the reason he decided not to have kids was to avoid passing down the condition to them.
oB9lo TIL Ines Ramirez Perez is the only woman to successfully do a self C-section. Alone in her house with no medical facility near Perez took several swigs of hard liqour and cut into herself using a 6-inch blade.