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TIL Alabama did not repel it's ban on interracial marriage untill 2000

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vPYQr TIL Many formulas exist for Wind Chill. The current one was only implemented in 2001. It is calculated for a bare face, facing the wind, while walking into it at 5.0 km/h/3.1 mph. It corrects the officially measured wind speed to the wind speed at face height, assuming the person is in an open field
MYW0 TIL the first documented cases of cancer were found on papyrus manuscripts in Egypt dating back to 3000 BC. In these manuscripts, 8 cases of breast tumors are mentioned that were removed by cauterization with a tool called the fire drill. The writing says about the disease, “There is no treatment.”
l7LLa TIL Icarus is actually a story about finding the middle way between the wing-melting sun and ocean, the earliest surviving example of the "golden middle" in Ancient Greek philosophy
7Xjb TIL the famous ‘risky selfie girl’, Russian girl Xenia Ignatyeva, who used to take selfies on top of high buildings and in other dangerous places with her boyfriend, actually died doing this. In 2014, she fell off a roof and landed on a live cable and got electrocuted to death.
0wjY1 TIL, 146 cryogenically frozen people are buried in the desert waiting for science to resurrect them