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[TIL] about Free Solo Climbing, where people climb mountains or peaks without any safety equipment or ropes

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woJeP TIL that Harry Houdini was always skeptical of the mediums that prayed on vulnerable people, so he tried to contact his dead mother, Cecelia, in 1922. It was a fail because the medium, Lady Doyle, wrote down what his mother was apparently saying in English, which was a language Cecelia did not know.
Eg9EX TIL Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rate of education exclusion globally, according to the UN. Nearly 60% of youth aged 15 to 17 are not in school.
kJlD1 TIL that epidermolysis bullosa (EB), a rare genetic condition that causes skin to become extremely fragile and prone to blistering, led to the death of a two-month-old baby named Felix Jean.
NXgeb TIL DNA can be taken from parchment. The DNA taken from parchment can be used to determine the animal of origin and its relation to other parchments.