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TIL Hippocrates taught human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. To be healthy you need them to be in correct proportion, both in strength and quantity, and well mixed

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Lk0g9 TIL that archeologists have found several iron tools, weapons and cultural objects dating thousands of years before the advent of the Iron age. These objects were held in high regard for their qualities and were made by cold forging iron obtained by fallen meteors.
j6VEa TIL Barbie is a copy of Bild Lilli - a german fashion doll for adults
J1Rkl TIL: In 1990 a courier was robbed on a street in London, England. The robber made off with bearer bonds to the value of £292 million. Today, this is equivalent to £758 million - or $1.086 billion USD. This is still the highest amount ever stolen in a street robbery.
E1vBX TIL In the 1690s, the Scottish tried to start a colony in Panama, but the Spanish and English wiped them out.
bd49 TIL: The First Photograph, or more specifically, the earliest known surviving photograph made in a camera, was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827. The image depicts the view from an upstairs window at Niépce’s estate, Le Gras, in the Burgundy region of France.