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TIL Galvani's nephew, Giovanni Aldini, electrically stimulated the limbs of a dead man in public

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yQrxv TIL that Robert Craig McNamara, the son of the former United States Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, is an organic walnut farmer, expert in soil and sustainable farming, and president of California's state Board of Food and Agriculture
D1pp TIL the largest tropical cyclone ever recorded, if plopped on a map, would span the entire width of the contiguous United States.
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