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TIL of Carl Tanzler, a hospital worker who fell in love with a dying patient. When she perished, he hauled her body out of the mausoleum on a “toy wagon”, preserved her, slept with her corpse for 7 years and planned to send her to space to “restore” her with radiation.

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4eZN TIL Jews arrived in India 2500 years ago and unlike many parts of the world, Jews lived in India without any instances of antisemitism from the local majority populace until the Portuguese and British colonized India
e0LJk TIL about one in every 1500 people have something called Voluntarily Piloerection - the ability to consciously give themselves goosebumps. The phenomenon both perplexes and intrigues neurophysiologists by defying conventional understanding of how the unconscious nervous system operates.
xVoxg TIL that extras in films and TV shows are often ordered to repeat "Watermelon cantaloupe" or "Rhubarb rhubarb" over and over in order to imitate the murmur of a crowd in the background of the scene. The mouth movements to say these phrases are sufficient to give the illusion of real speech.
P1exG TIL because of tidal forces, the moon completes one revolution every 655 hours. So one "side" of the Moon is always facing the Earth, and the other "side" is always facing away from the Earth. On the surface of the Moon, you would experience 327.5 hours of sunlight and 327.5 hours of darkness.
OGjQg TIL immaculate conception is scientifically/biologically possible.