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TIL about the Paracas culture, an Andean Society dated 800 BCE – 100 BCE which had Fantastical Textiles, Mummy Bundles, and Geoglyphs predating the Nazca Lines

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6lem TIL after President Garfield was shot during an assassination attempt in 1881, he was kept alive for several days through rectal feeding, and was even given drams of whisky via his butt. The Dr who treated him was named Dr Doctor.
D1BWr TIL Before committing suicide with gas, composer Peter Warlock locked his cat outside so that it wouldn't die with him.
5kDQ TIL when Salvador Dali was recently exhumed to determine whether a fortune teller is his biological daughter, his moustache was still perfectly intact.
ne689 til: The guy who invented the gas mask (respirator) died in a balloon accident at the age of 31. As a result his soon to be wife killed herself
mx99v TIL there is a proposal by the Berlin state sport association for a joint Berlin-Tel Aviv summer Olympics in 2036, 100 years after the 1936 Berlin Olympics in Nazi Germany.