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TIL The Vuoristorata, a wooden rollercoaster at the Linnanmäki amusement park in Helsinki, Finland, is operated by a brakeperson standing at the rear of the train. Designed by Valdemar Lebech and built in 1950, it was the last rollercoaster in the world built using side friction technology.

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Lk5Yr TIL that Scientists Hope to Clone a 40,000-Year-Old Extinct Horse. The baby horse was discovered in permafrost in eastern Siberia. The animal's tissue was preserved enough for scientists to obtain samples. There is no damage to the horse's carcass and even its hair is intact.
Ypr5A TIL that Twenty or more US Airmen were in Hiroshima as POWs when the Atom Bomb fell. SSG Ralph J. Neal and another Airman, Norman Brissette, survived the initial blast by jumping into a cesspool, only to die thirteen days later from radiation poisoning.
0vpA TIL that the Etoro people of New Guinea believe that, in order to attain manhood, a boy must fellate a tribal elder and swallow his semen, daily, from the age of 12 to 17. The nearby Kaluli tribe considers the practice barbaric: they believe the semen of the elder must pass through the boy’s anus.
nWkZr TIL that the director of Rebel Without A Cause started 'sleeping with' a 15 year old after catching his 2nd wife in bed with his 13 year old son
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