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TIL Cruentation, the understanding that dead bodies would bleed in the presence of their murderer, was a common belief in the Middle Ages.

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ymJv TIL 19 Ph.D’s were given an incorrect formula for determining the volume of a sphere and asked to verify it by filling the sphere with water and measuring the volume of the water, all but one clung to the incorrect formula despite empirical observations.
epDZb TIL exactly what it means to be “Hanged, drawn and quartered”: “…fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded, and quartered (chopped into four pieces).”
d89m7 TIL George Washington was a Master Mason
PdwL TIL that in 1994, an American figure skater hired a hitman to smash the leg of her main rival.
kOE7B TIL that the Common Cold leads to almost $10 billion in doctor's visits and drugs per year. It is also responsible for almost 315 million sick days from school and work, costing over $20 billion and accounting for 40% of time lost from work.