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TIL that there's such a thing as a "media bias chart" that is helpful in determining reliability in news sources

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woK6 TIL A ‘Tobacco Enema’, blowing smoke up someones backside, used to be used as a method of resuscitation when someone had drowned
v1vP8 TIL Amsterdam Schiphol airport has a sniffing dog on staff who can return lost items to their owners before they even know they’re gone.
e05g6 TIL About the Frozen Dead Guy Days in Nederland, Colorado. It celebrates the cryopreservation of "Grandpa" Bredo Morstoel, by organising coffin races or lookalike contests. You can also visit the Tuff Shed where Grandpa is being held frozen.
Mev1W TIL Inmates of a nazi labour camp in northern Germany's marshes were banned from singing political songs, so they wrote a "soldier" hymn to themselves being "peat bog soldiers". When the SS made them perform it at the "concentration camp circus" the anti-nazi song was so catchy, the SS sang along.
wLyOY TIL That the fourth finger of the left hand is the ring finger because Romans believed that there was a vein that ran directly to the heart from that finger: the "vena amoris" or the "vein of love"