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TIL that the act of throwing someone out of a window is called "Defenestration".

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10gD TIL The Stroop effect (e.g. the printed word “blue” colored in red) was used to help detect Russian spies during the Cold War.
ep4Eb TIL Rotationplasty is a surgical procedure where, in case of bone tumor, they remove a child's lower leg, rotate it 180 degree and attach it to a thigh bone in a way that makes an ankle joint serve as a "new knee". It looks like having one leg shorter and rotated back.
drQK TIL that Thomas Edison taught his second wife Morse code so they could communicate in secret by tapping into each other’s hands when her family was around
eX8n TIL Kathryn Johnston became the first girl to play Little League baseball in 1950, when she tucked her hair under her hat, adopted the nickname “Tubby”, and joined the Kings Dairy team, posing as a boy. When she told her coach she was a girl, he said “That’s O.K., you’re a darned good player.”
eamL TIL our galaxy isn’t just a spiral galaxy but a bar galaxy