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RwR4 TIL that the craft brewery Dogfish Head has introduced a line called “Ancient Ales,” made from historic recipes, some of which that haven’t been brewed in thousands of years.
4XJGX TIL that sitting cross-legged for long periods is harmful to your body, especially the pelvis and back.
Lk5Zm TIL scientists in 2005 placed dogs in suspended animation and brought them back to life. First they drained their blood and replaced it with a low-temperature solution. After three hours of clinical death, the dogs' blood was returned and their hearts were shocked, and the dogs came back to life.
JDvv TIL Charles XII of Sweden was embalmed well enough to recognize his features when exhumed 200 years after his death. Photographs show the gunshot wound to his head that killed him.
MevWb TIL about Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, an undocumented immigrant who learned English in his 20s, picked cotton and welded, graduated from Berkeley and Harvard and went on to become one of the top neurosurgeons in the US