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TIL Swedish and Scandanavian children dress up as witches and go door-to-door asking for candy… on Easter.

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DGPp TIL An Australian neurosurgeon has completed a world-first marathon surgery removing cancer-riddled vertebrae and successfully replacing them with a 3D-printed body part.
Mewya TIL that, during the so-called "Dark Ages" of Europe, the Muslim World was having an "Enlightened," or "Golden" Age, in part, because the Muslims adopted "modern" numbers from the Hindus as it was "easier" to do mathematics while the rest of Europe kept Roman Numerals (linked playlist with video).
kO0v7 TIL According to NASA, "...a one- to two-degree drop [in the global temperature] was all it took to plunge the Earth into the Little Ice Age. A five-degree drop was enough to bury a large part of North America under a towering mass of ice 20,000 years ago."
OGgl4 TIL Eating boogers can be good for your teeth.
8ajkK TIL: Telemarketers that have "press x to be put on a DNC list" use that to determine if you're human /responsive and sell your data to other scam callers.