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mxoJx TIL Edgar Allen Poe died mysteriously after having been missing for six days. Though still alive when he was finally found, he was wearing someone else’s cheap clothes and not coherent enough to tell where he’d been. He had disappeared en route to his own wedding.
6EjgQ TIL that when trains were first introduced in the U.S, many people believed that, "women's bodies were not meant to go at 50 miles an hour" and that their "uteruses would fly out of [their] bodies if they were accelerated to that speed"
JYXx8 TIL the world's longest burning fire is 6000 years old
jnda TIL in 1958 ford designed a concept for a nuclear powered car. This concept was later used as inspiration for the cars in the Fallout series.
EQBo TIL a high school teacher, inspired by the movie “Up”, was threatened to be fired after using a dog collar dubbed “the cone of shame” on bad students.