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TIL about lava crickets, crickets that make their home in cooled lava and drink seafoam to survive

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AN7PB TIL: There is a myth about Korean Virgin Ghosts which are formed when an unmarried women dies. They haunt newly married couples. If you get possessed by one, you'd harbor strong resentment and are unmarriable. Virgin ghosts are counteracted by phallic shrines, dolls, and burying them upside down.
4kKNJ TIL when Amtrak launched its high-speed Acela line in 2000, only about 37 percent of people traveling between New York and Washington made the trip but it grew to 83 percent by 2021
5V17n TIL the character Sabrina the Teenage Witch was originally created in 1962 as a part of the Archie comics series.
5a6R TIL a Doctor in Australia 3D printed a mans vertebrae and successfully installed the components. Not only that but they were two highly-specialised vertebrae that are involved in the flexion and rotation of the cranium.
0d09y TIL that in 1969, Honduras and El Salvador, who already had extreme tension, faced off in the 1970 FIFA qualifier. Game 1, won by Honduras, led to Salvadoran rioting, and Game 2, won by El Salvador, led to Honduran riots. After border skirmishes, this led to a four-day war known as the Football War.