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TIL Treadmills were invented to punish English criminals!

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8an7a TIL -40° is the only unit in temperature where both Celsius and Fahrenheit converge.
XjLj TIL the Led Zeppelin song “Gallows Pole” is a version of a centuries-old folk song. Traditionally the main character bribes the executioner to let them go. In the Zeppelin version the executioner takes the money but carries through with the execution.
DQerr TIL our hands and feet wrinkle in water to provide better grip on wet objects
NX4kJ TIL that the highest point in the Netherlands is Mount Scenery, located in the Caribbean.
woD7E TIL in 2017 a 4-yr-old girl in Siberia awoke to find her grandmother was sick and not moving. After talking to her blind grandfather, she decided to walk 5 miles alone in temperatures as low as -34°C (-29°F) over several hours to the next homestead in order to find help, which she successfullly did.