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Today I learned the ancient Greeks performed tonsillectomies, using the “hook and knife” method with direct sunlight to visualize the inflamed tissue

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nWEJ9 TIL The Ailurarctos is an extinct species of panda. Like modern pandas, they fed on bamboo. Fossil records indicated that they existed 6 to 7 million years ago
pR7Z TIL you can grow 6,000 lbs of of organic food on 1/10th acre
MEwA TIL Mick “Crocodile” Dundee was based on an actual person who survived 56 days in crocodile infested outback Australia. He died in a police shootout after he killed a cop while high on amphetamines.
nWek7 TIL palimpsest are texts which have been scrapped to be reused. In the Middle Age, due to the scarcity of parchment (made from animal skins), older manuscripts were reused this way