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TIL that the human stomach can dissolve razor blades
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TIL that In 1518, the dancing plague in the Holy Roman city of Strasbourg saw some 400 people dance uncontrollably for weeks on end — leaving as many as 100 of them dead.
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TIL that in 2023, a 45-year-old Belgian man named David Baerten faked his own death, but then showed up to his own funeral to teach his family a “life lesson.” He was reportedly dismayed that his family had grown apart.
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TIL People born deaf with schizophrenia see disembodied hands signing to them, as opposed to "hearing" voices
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TIL The first Third Party in the United States was the Anti-Masonic Party that ran on an anti Free-Mason and anti-elite platform. They got 7.8% of the popular vote in the 1832 election.
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TIL there is a howitzer cannon permanently mounted at Charles River esplanade in Boston, which is used every fourth of july as "extra percussion" for Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture