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TIL The makers of Trials Evolution hid a century-spanning scavenger hunt/cryptic alternate reality game within their game. Those who solved it found hidden keys, with the promise they will open a box beneath the Eiffel tower in 2113

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d57Q TIL Plato believes that people acquire knowledge of geometry before we were born, as we do not acquire the basic truths of math and science through observation so therefore our souls must have lived in a perfect universe before birth
RJoa TIL of the ‘Radium Girls’ who worked in a factory where they worked with luminescent radium. Not knowing it was dangerous, they oftenpainted it on their lips and teeth for fun. They began to develop radium necrosis, causing their jaws to rot and develop disfiguring tumors, and eventually died.
awVMJ TIL that the last fatal shark attack in the UK happened on the 1st of August 1956. A man by the name of Richard Kirby was killed by a shark whilst trying to kill a shark with explosives.
Z6JR TIL One of the most, if not the most, prolific serial killers in American history, continued getting work as a nurse from 1988 - 2003 due to a national nurse shortage even with extensive history of attempted suicide, documented mental instability and accused patient misconduct
Yp9rv TIL of U.S. Patent 3216423: Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force, which was intended to facilitate labour by spinning a pregnant mother. The designers believed that "civilised women... often do not have the opportunity to develop the muscles needed in confinement."