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TIL: A cat’s purr at 26 hertz promotes tissue regeneration and influenced the US space program

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XE1A8 TIL Beck Weathers was left for dead twice after falling into coma while climbing Everest. At some point, his body warmed up and he regained consciousness. Blind, numb and severly frostbitten, he stumbled 300yd into Camp IV. He was saved in the 2nd highest altitude helicopter rescue in history.
WkpdL TIL about Georgia Tann, who was an American child trafficker who operated a major adoption agency in Memphis, Tennesee. Tann used the agency as a front to steal and sell Children in the 1920s until 1950, when a state investigation resulted in the agency closing.
EggNP TIL that an alligator can go over 2 years without eating.
78YJ7 TIL That anyone killed by lightening in Rome was denied proper burial, because it was assumed the gods had punished him
9wDYQ TIL that IHOP actually stands for International House of Pancakes