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TIL that there is a monument in Georgia that gives instructions in 8 languages on how to rebuild society after an unknown apocalyptic event, and it also functions as a compass, calendar, and clock.

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8kvK TIL Sleeping Beauty (in 1634) gets a sliver, falls apparently dead, is hidden by her father, found unconscious and raped by a king out hunting, gives birth to two children who wake her up, so the king burns his wife alive to be with her (after the wife tried to kill and eat the babies)
emm5 TIL that humans will regrow a rib equally as strong as the original within only 2 - 3 months of having it surgically shortened.
BZly TIL when Anders Celsius invented the temperature scale, he put 100 degrees as the point for freezing and 0 degrees as the point for boiling. Another scientist, Carl Linnaeus, waited until Celsius had died to change the scale to the way we read it today.
OaG4 TIL Indian Vulture suffered a 99% population decrease in Indo-Pak between 2000-2007 due to poisoning caused by the veterinary drug diclofenac. (Reduces joint pain in cattle and keeps them working for longer in old age). The drug enters vultures from the flesh of dead cattle.
J1DYv TIL There are 120 times more water molecules in the cubic inch of water than there are stars in the observable universe