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TIL at least one of the victims of the Vesuvius Eruption in 79 C.E was found with a vitrified brain. In other words their brain was turned to glass due to the extreme heat.

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NXjp6 TIL in a very early conflict of the Revolutionary War, a contingent of North Carolina militia battled British Loyalists armed only with swords in the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge. In less than an hour, the militia inflicted 50 British casualties and captured 850, while suffering only 2 casualties.
8nQV TIL Dick Jones nearly drowned while reading his “underwater” lines in the film Pinocchio, as he was “lying on his back while a director poured water into his mouth.”
XENZk TIL Researchers at the University of Montreal were attempting a study on the behaviour of men who watch pornography compared to those who don’t but were unable to find any men who hadn’t consumed porn
188X TIL that a Mongol ruler had “Who ever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I” inscribed on his casket. On the day a Soviet anthropologist exhumed his body the largest military invasion in history was launched against the USSR.
Lkj4V TIL that mere hours are sufficient to form fossils aka the Medusa Effect aka flash petrification