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TIL, Jose Melena was at work loading pallets of canned tuna into a 35-foot-long pressure cooker when a coworker filled it up with 12,000 pounds of tuna and turned it on for 2 hours while Jose was still inside.

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ANBa4 TIL that in 1942, 67 German POWs survived a ship sinking off the coast of Indonesia and managed to swim to the island of Nias, where they established, the "Free Republic of Nias", led by a doctor. The state lasted less than a month, when Japanese forces arrived.
D15Og TIL that there is a collection of hundreds of preserved diseased brains along with photographs of patients in the sub-basement of Yale Medical School that is free and open to the public. The collection was started by the first neurosurgeon to successfully remove a brain tumor - Dr. Harvey Cushing.
d8VeK TIL a Baku is a creature from Chinese folklore that can be summoned to devour nightmares. However if he remains hungry after eating one’s nightmares, he may also devour their hopes and desires.
5VZB TIL that Thomas Edison said he would give Nikola Tesla 50,000 dollars if he could redesign Edison’s inefficient motors. Tesla did this, but Edison told him it was a joke afterwards, crushing Tesla.
Y7RPv TIL that there were 1752 books in Newton’s personal library after his death. (1763 if being included titles of which Newton owned more than one copy). Here's a category breakdown: Theology (477), Alchemy (169), Mathematics (126), Physics (52), Astronomy (33).