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TIL about the Society of Mutual Autopsy, established on 1876 by French anthropologists, whose rule was that each member had, on his death, to deliver his body (especially the brain) to the group for autopsy

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LkKPV TIL: The First Chicken Born Outside the Egg. In 2018, Chinese scientists hatched the first chicken without an eggshell. For twenty-one days people watched the bird grow and mature directly through the transparent walls of a glass.
a8WRb TIL that before the 16th century, most carrots were purple
kO9w5 TIL: Alice Seeley Harris, a missionary who documented the horrendous abuse and mutilation under Leopold II, King of Belgium.
wL1bo TIL the film Donnie Darko took only 28 days to shoot; coincidentally the timer in the movie counting down to the end of the world is approximately 28 days.
xKo0 TIL that a US Army veteran, severely depressed after his wife filed divorce, both parents dead of cancer, his equipment stolen, income stopped, utilities cut off, house in foreclosure, stole a TANK from the armory, went on a rampage on the streets destroying cars, was finally shot and killed.