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TIL about the "Squirrel Cage Jail" in Iowa, a three-story rotary jail that actually turned (and could cut off your limbs if you hung them out of the cage when it turned). It took five minutes for it make one revolution.

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AgZa TIL to see a lunar rainbow or ‘moonbow’, the moon must not only be full, it also has to be less than 42 degrees in the sky, within 2 to 3 hours before sunrise, and of course, there must be rain falling exactly opposite the moon at that precise moment.
PaeZ TIL There is a natural neuron in your brain that mimics the actions of people around you, like walking the same way and speed of a friend.
e0vdk TIL that while Mexico only drinks 50% more soda per capital than the US(100L & 150L respectively), the Mexican state of Chiapas drinks 820L per capital every year(2.2L per day) due to the drink being introduced into the religious activities of the Mayan people of the region
XEKr6 TIL: One housecat (ever) survived spaceflight. Test animal C-341 later renamed Félix and then Félicette was blasted into a suborbital flight on a French rocket in 1963. Seeking to examine her brain for possible space-induced changes, some weeks after her historic flight scientists euthanized her.
E1WGW TIL that for 5000 years, Europeans built huge magnificent cities, and lived in them, just to burn them to the ground every 75 years. People in current-day Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine and the area, intentionally set their settlements on fire between 7000-2000 BC, for reasons still being researched.