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TIL Kaiser Wilhelm II had a series of birth defects, most notably a withered left arm. Treatments for his arm include: salt water sprays, cold compression, electric shocks, stretching, and putting the arm into a fresh animal carcass (Queen Victoria thought this was a bad idea).

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Oo8pa TIL Xerxes built two pontoon bridges over the Dardanelles strait to move his troops into Macedonia. When a storm destroyed the bridges, Xerxes had the builders beheaded and sent his army to whip, yell at, and brand the waters. The bridges were never rebuilt. Xerxes later lost the war with Macedonia.
VPED TIL Nazis performed human experiments on twins, including but not limited to, sewing them together to make conjoined twins.
d0eE TIL Tibetan monks sleep sitting up and even have a special “box” for it (pic in article)
rRBnM TIL It takes thousands of years for sunlight to travel from the Sun’s core to its surface and then only ~8 minutes to reach us.
9Ojm TIL from the thirties until the seventies, fluoroscopes were common in children’s shoe stores. They are live x-ray machines that let you see the bones in your feet when you wiggle your toes. By 1970, 33 states had banned them due to health concerns.