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TIL it is illegal to touch a pregnant woman’s belly in Pennsylvania

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wL098 TIL about Julia Pastrana, a Mexican woman who was toured around the world as "the bear woman". When she died in childbirth in 1860 her husband had her embalmed and continued touring. Her remains ended up in the basement of the University of Oslo. In 2013 she was finally laid to rest in Mexico.
xVlNB TIL In Japan doctors would prescribe "Forest therapy" to treat depression and anxiety. The scent of the trees increases activity of the natural killer cells that enhances your immune system which boosts resistance against stress.
9wy6B TIL it’s cummerbund and not cumberbund
PYDkJ TIL Vegemite, a food spread made of leftover brewery yeast, was banned in some Australian prisons to prevent inmates from making moonshine. Also, because Vegemite's high concentration of ions and water can be used to conduct electricity, it's currently being researched to make edible medical sensors
PvyG Today I learned about the Mobile Bay Jubilee, a recurring natural phenomenon found in only one spot on the whole world. Roughly once a year, thousands of crab, shrimp, eels and fish will leave deeper waters to swarm onto the shallower coastal waters, due to oxygen suffocation