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TIL that high pressure reverses anesthesia and alcohol inebriation, deep sea divers experiencing high pressure are resistant to anesthesa and alcohol. This helped reveal how anesthesa works

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kOBO4 TIL That Harry Houdini stipulated in his will that all his props should be "destroyed and burned" after the death of his brother. His brother sold them instead. In 1995, a fire destroyed the museum where the props were kept.
4XBag TIL That a Sherpa isn't a mountaineering job but an ethnic group.
OGDQ7 TIL that Wincanton, in Somerset, UK is twinned with Ankh-Morpork--a fictitious town from Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" series of books--and that the town is the first to name streets after their fictional equivalents.
bwvN TIL That in 2003, pizza man Brian Douglas was kidnapped, forced to wear a neck bomb and rob a bank. He died in the parking lot after the bomb went off because police told him not to move.
rnjM TIL of the Skoptsy sect, whose members underwent removal of sexual organs due to their belief that they represented the forbidden fruit and original sin