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oROlK TIL 71 year old Bernard Gore was supposed to meet his wife and daughter in a mall in Sydney after first doing a little shopping himself. Instead, he exited a mall door leading to a stairwell labyrinth and was found dead 3 weeks later failing to find his way out.
GY1A1 TIL: People who suffer from gout are significantly less likely to develop Parkinson’s disease.
ANmKa TIL that in the 1790s, France had a network of signalling towers that could send messages by writing symbols using giant mechanical arms on towers. They could send complex messages across the entire country in ~1 hour. These were precursors to electric telegraphs.
LkemV TIL Ronald Reagan at 69, "pledged to resign if he became "senile"".
8ax4a TIL that archeologist Virginia Steen-McIntyre dated a human settlement in Hueyatlaco Mexico to 250,000 BCE some 200,000+ years before most other estimates. Despite the fact that she confirmed this date through four different scientific tests, her research has remained not widely accepted.