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TIL one of the first attempts to make a numerical (0-10) pain scale involved burning the hands of women in labor and asking them to compare the pain to contractions.

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R7p8w TIL that wet plate photography cannot pick up certain tattoos. This ended up erasing a large part of Māori culture from history.
kBMm TIL in 1968 Japan, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car hadbeen riggedwith a bomb. The cop got under the car to defuse the device. Everybody ran when the car started to smoke. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300M Yen robbery remains unsolved
60bJ TIL France is the only country with officially paid UFO investigators and it released its UFO files to the public through its website.
JWv TIL declawing a cat is anatomically the equivalent of removing the entire last bone in a human finger at the joint.
eQak TIL that Jeffrey Donovan, best known for his work as Michael Weston on Burn Notice, established a scholarship which gives $10,000 annually to a senior from his high school who plans to major in a fine arts program in college.