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TIL 10.4% of the world’s population is either in a marriage/relationship with their second cousin or closer relative or is the result of such a union

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a8DoM TIL In 1894, Cripple Creek, a gold rush town in Colorado, boasted 150 miners and over 300 prostitutes.
Eglw TIL Suspended animation is a surgical technique in which the patient’s body temperature is lowered to about 55F (18C) causing breathing and blood flow to halt. At this point the surgeon has ~45min to operate before any brain damage occurs.
LQoj0 TIL Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, only joined Vietnam in the 18th century and was originally part of Cambodia. Cambodians still call it by its Khmer name Prey Nokor
OgW6 TIL There was more to the infamous picture of Sophia Loren dead eying Jayne Mansfield’s breasts. And there was a nip-slip involved (the reason for the NSFW tag)
8e8JP TIL School clocks were initially synchronized by pneumatic tubes that pushed the hands simultaneously in every classroom, from 1877 into the 1920s, when electric impulses were used. Factories and office buildings quickly switched to these systems as well.