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TIL about the man who cut out his own appendix. The only doctor an an expedition to Antarctica, there was only one man and a bottle of whisky for the job.

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EgrAX TIL about peona cullei.“Punishment of the Sack” This was a ancient Roman execution, commonly used for patricide, where a man is sewn up in a leather sackcloth, with a live dog, monkey, viper, and rooster, and then tossed into a body of water.
YpZ0W TIL Psychogenic death is real. It isn't suicide, it isn't linked to depression, but the act of giving up on life and dying usually within days, is a very real condition often linked to severe trauma. People die because they have given up and feel life has beaten them and defeat is inescapable.
0GBA TIL Stargate was the first film to have an official dedicated website, in 1994
njG TIL Charles Barkley was about to run for Governor of Alabama as a Republican until “they lost their minds.”
aWD9 TIL the Mongols did what Hitler and Napoleon failed to do - defeat the Russians during winter!