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TIL Divers can shake hands with “Old Whitey”, the preserved captains corpse of the SS Kamloops, at the bottom of Lake Superior

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KZga TIL Daniel Radcliff wore the same outfit each time he left a theatre for 6 months, in order to make paparazzi photographs useless.
6ERL8 TIL that The Sateré-Mawé tribe of Brazil have a ritual where they subject themselves to the sting of over 120 bullet ants, which have a sting 30 times more painful than that of a wasp.
DQNRg TIL Caecilians have evolved resistance to elapid snake venom independently at least 15 times, with some species being entirely immune. The only caecilians that do not have resistance to the neurotoxins are species in Seychelles, which has no elapid snakes on these islands.
A5Dl TIL the “broom method” was a method for detecting invisible flames. Firefighters would probe a room with a corn straw broom until it burst into flames, indicating the location of the fire.
LkGJ0 TIL The 18th century “Old Grapevine Tavern” in New York City was a popular hangout of Union officers and Confederate spies. Lawyers, politicians, actors, and artists would meet there. It was the ideal place to spread rumors & gossip, leading to the popular phrase “heard it through the grapevine”.