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TIL that Robert Liston, is the only surgeon with a 300% mortality rate. As he brought down his saw he took his assistant’s fingers off along with the patient’s leg. The patient and his assistant died after their wounds became infected, and the spectator who collapsed was found to have died of fright

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v1aND TIL of Hatuey, an anti-colonial revolutionary in Cuba during the 16th century. Upon being captured by the Spaniards he was sentenced to be burned. Before being burned a priest offered to baptize him so he may go to heaven. To this he said, "If the Spaniards go to this heaven, I don't want to go".
XvAQ TIL Philip Seymour Hoffman had been sober for 23 years until he accepted an alcoholic beverage to celebrate the completion of The Master. This resulted in relapse, after which he started to use prescription medication. the following year he was using heroin.
Z8n1G TIL: Anarcho-primitivism is a political ideology that advocates a return to non-"civilized" ways of life through deindustrialization, abolition of the division of labor or specialization and abandonment of large-scale organization technologies. Or...devolution.
6EQeQ Matter tells space how to curve, and curved space tells matter how to move. That's the basic principle behind Einstein's General Relativity, which linked, for the first time, the phenomenon of gravity with that of spacetime and relativity. Place a mass down anywhere in the Universe, and the space around it will curve in response. But if you take that mass away, or move it elsewhere, what causes the spacetime to "snap back" to its unbent position?
698Rl TIL that Australia is wider than the moon, depending on how you measure.