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TIL that the parachute was invented before the airplane
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TIL if there are complications getting a baby to come out, they will use a vacuum. It's called a "vacuum extraction delivery".
V0b0
TIL there is a disease that affects the inner ear and amplifies all internal sounds. It gets to the point where the sound of the eyeballs moving in their sockets sounds like “sandpaper on wood”
16rod
TIL: That Gretel Bergmann, a German Jewish athlete, was banned from the Berlin Olympics despite matching the German high jump record. Two weeks before the Olympics, she received a letter from the German sports authorities stating she was being removed from the national team for under-performance.
b69M4
TIL that from 1995 to 2015, Walt Disney World had its own NASCAR speedway. Even better, it was nicknamed, "the Mickyard", after Mickey Mouse and the nickname for Indianapolis Intl. Speedway, "the Brickyard".
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TIL that the British war hero Admiral Nelson was taken back to England (from the Battle of Trafalgar) in a coffin made from the mast of a French ship he had sunk