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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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awl50 TIL: Genghis Khan had the greatest positive impact on the environment of this planet, his murderous Mongol armies were responsible for the massacre of as many as 40 million people, which actually helped scrub about 700 million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere.
XblQ TIL more than 40 percent of the Fortune 500 companies in 2010 were founded by an immigrant or the child of an immigrant
nWB1o TIL that some acoustic guitars can come with bug larvae within the wood that when hatched, can eat the guitar.
0d48A TIL Carrie-Anne Moss, Trinity in Matrix trilogy, also took a part on a TV Series called Matrix (1993) about an assassinated hitmen who stuck in between worlds and given a second chance to redeem himself in the real world by helping others.
XJ4D TIL that people in Rome who wanted to kill themselves could apply to the Senate, and if their reasons were judged sound they were then given hemlock for free