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Today I learned about Nicolae Minovici, a Romanian forensic scientist who hung himself 12 times in order to better understand what is happening during the hanging process and to prove others wrong.

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pagO TIL Burning Mountain in Australia is the site of a coal fire which has been burning for 6,000 years.
PY96E Til it's the 75th anniversary of the acid trip.
0PKj TIL there was an attempted coup d'état in Japan the night before they surrendered to allies during WWII, in an attempt to stop the surrender and continue fighting.
l7M6A TIL that bumblebees can fly higher than the peak of Mt. Everest. Researchers put the bees in plexiglass chambers where they simulated different altitudes. While all bees were capable of flying at over 24,278 ft (7,400 m), two bees were capable of hovering at over 29,527 ft (9,000 m).
BrPgK TIL that in 1937, a Michigan dentist stopped two fleeing bank robbers by shooting them with his deer rifle, wounding one in the arm and killing the other with a head shot at a range of almost 150 yards