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TIL Ondine’s curse occurs when a part of your brain is injured causing you to lose the subconscious drive to breathe

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m1pGP TIL in 1909, while investigating rumors that a stone had fallen from the sky already covered in human writing, American explorer Frederick Burnham discovered an 8-foot long boulder featuring ancient inscriptions which remain untranslated.
8d0a TIL J.K. Rowling lost her billionaire status because she donated so much of her money to charity
jZRE TIL The Great Pyramid is aligned with Machu Picchu, the Nazca lines and Easter Island along a straight line around the center of the Earth
MeN6V TIL in 75 BC, pirates seized a vessel that Julius Caesar was in, and held him for ransom. Caesar was insulted at the ransom, which he saw as too low, and promised to crucify the pirates. At his insistence the pirates raised the demand. After he was freed, he captured the pirates and crucified them.
MeAYW TIL that using the red cross as a symbol of health in a video game or any other commercial product technically constitutes a violation of the Geneva conventions.