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TIL that you should not use flame or salt to remove a leech, as it may regurgitate its stomach contents into the wound.

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QNDe9 TIL about Kummakivi, a large balancing rock in Ruokolahti, Finland.
X0A9r TIL: The world’s largest pyramid, Tlachihualtepetl, can be found not in Egypt, but hidden beneath a hill in a small town in the central Mexican state of Puebla.
oBZ5o TIL Vince Coleman, a railway dispatcher, sacrificed his life in order to warn an incoming train of an imminent explosion. His telegraph said "Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbor making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys." He saved 300 lives.
OGBYe TIL in the first auto show in New York in 1899, every vehicle was electric with the exception of some steam powered cars.
6EOQm TIL William Blythe died in a one-vehicle car accident when the vehicle overturned and threw him into a ditch, where he drowned. Blythe was on his way to Arkansas from Chicago to pick up his 5th wife, Virginia, and her unborn son Bill, who would later go on to become the 42nd President.