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TIL that chainsaws were originally invented for childbirth

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WO64 TIL A woman made great contributions to Egyptology after hitting her head as a toddler and claiming to have unlocked a past life as a priestess in Ancient Egypt.
pYr88 TIL about Nova Scotia’s remote Sable Island. The Canadian Government has planted 70,000 trees on the 26 mile long sand bar and one has survived: a scrubby pine that is decorated for Christmas every year.
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.
69ojW TIL that the city center of Lyallpur (today's Faisalabad, Pakistan) was designed by the British to imitate the Union Jack, with eight roads radiating from a large clock tower (Ghenta Ghar) in the centre of eight separate bazaars
49Vo TIL traffic in central London moves at the same speed as horse-drawn carriages a century ago.