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TIL a woman recovering from shingles had such an itchy scalp that she painlessly scratched through the skull to the brain

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1oEO TIL gloves which can translate sign language into speech are being developed
yV5xv TIL that Samurai armour was largely made out of hemp (cannabis)
xmg7 TIL The longest flight lasted over 2 months, a record that hasn’t been broken for more than 50 years.
dD4Kj TIL the Cities of Tampa and Miami have a rivalry over where the Cuban Sandwich was first invented and that Tampa passed a resolution in 2012 naming it the official sandwich of the city.
nWXnG TIL that over 2,000 years ago the Greek astronomer Eratosthenes estimated the Earth’s circumference to be equivalent to 26,000 miles, a 5% error. He did this based on the Sun shining down wells in the Egyptian cities of Alexandria and Styene and knowing how far apart they were.