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TIL there are shackles at the feet of Lady Liberty

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0dvQp TIL In the late 1800s, a surgeon from Naples named Efisio Marini, developed a preservation process of the dead that gave a permanent state of natural freshness. He made gifts of preserved body parts to Napoleon III, and even gave a medallion to General Garibaldi made of his own blood.
Q88X TIL: Lobsters pee out of their face to display their dominance.
kJ571 TIL That a 1.1 grade in Germany is equivalent to 9.8/10 in Indian Scale
PRXO TIL as part of their bid for the 2022 world cup, Japan proposed filming the matches with 200 HD cameras and then project these as life-size holograms in other stadiums around the world.
9r7Q TIL there is an American charity that pays drug addicts roughly $300 to get sterilized.