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TIL tree rings can reveal the dates of historical hurricanes

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R7oZ4 TIL that in Japanese Folklore, the Konaki-Jiji has the body of a baby with the head of an old man. It lies on the side of the road crying, waiting for a kind-hearted traveler to pick it up. Once the Konaki-Jiji is picked up, it turns into a heavy stone that crushes the victim to death.
4bg TIL that if you collapse an underwater bubble with a soundwave, light is produced, and nobody knows why.
p879p TIL during the battle of Arnhem, after numerous communication failures, a pigeon named William of Orange flew over 400 km (250 miles) for over 4 and a half hours to deliver a message that would end up saving the lives of more than 2000 men. He later earned the Dickins Medal.
YprW7 TIL There is a company that is specialized in preserving the tattoos of died loved one's. They created a special procedure to be able to display and frame the actual tattooed skin for decades.
69vDW TIL an estimated 121K people in England died in 2022 awaiting treatment. That’s a death rate of 220 per 100K. Other estimates put that number even higher at 340K, or a rate of 618 per 100K.