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TIL The human sigh acts as a physiological reset button

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EgbGW TIL that a medieval hermit could voluntarily choose to live in a small sealed room attached to the church for the rest of their lives. Priests would give them funeral rites before they entered and they were treated like living saints.
xBMb TIL As a final bit of humor, Leslie Nielsen chose “Let ‘er rip” as his epitaph.
yQxDw TIL of the "California Nut Crimes", including the theft of 35 truckloads of nuts worth about $10 million between 2013 - 2017.
9YQw7 TIL Ferrari only produced 400 of their iconic 2005 Ferrari Enzo. The first 399 were sold in the public market, with the final 400th being gifted to Pope John Paul II which was then auctioned off for charity for $6M to help the victims of the 2005 tsunami in Southeast Asia.
Xn7D TIL that dolphins can tolerate and recover from extreme injuries like shark bites. The healing process is very rapid - even very deep wounds wont cause a dolphin to bleed to death. Gaping wounds heal in a way that restores the animal’s natural body shape. Infection of large wounds is also very rare