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TIL: There was another species of human recently found.

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xr0B TIL that in 1976, the mummified body of Elmer Mccurdy was found in a funhouse in California. Mccurdy had died in a shootout in 1911 and his body had been used ever since as a sideshow attraction. His discoverers only realised it was a human body when his arm broke off, revealing bone and muscle.
Y7W1d TIL liquid breathing of perfluorocarbons (PFCs) has been tested on infants born with severe lung conditions, leading to improved lung function and oxygenation
awoN TIL Alice Cooper led the movement to restore the dilapitated Hollywood sign, in the 1970’s. He then fully paid for the third “O” himself, dedicating it to Groucho Marx.
KEW9 TIL Ben Franklin made a list of 250 synonyms for being drunk in 1737. This list became very popular to show off in pubs at the time.
KppE TIL: There is a word for the murder of citizens by their own government, “democide” and it is the leading cause of unnatural human death.