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TIL that an estimated 85 people die for every life saved by speed bumps, because while they slow down cars and save pedestrians they also slow down emergency vehicles that might otherwise save people.

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kPNm TIL that the Nazis planned on preserving the Jewish quarter of Prague in order to establish an “exotic museum of an extinct race”
d86Aj TIL the dissections of Da Vinci began an artistic style called écorché (flayed in French), which graphically depicts the body without skin. This musculoskeletal blueprint for postures and gestures aided Renaissance realism. In the Enlightenment, mass-produced sculptures standardized medical studies
ADJ1w TIL that The Russian city of Kaliningrad is named Königsberg, Królewiec, Karaliaučius, and Královec depending on what country you are in.
7dgX TIL Biologists at Osaka University in Japan have discovered a new way to grow the many separate tissues that make up the human eyeball, including retinas, corneas, the eye’s lens, using stem cells extracted from a small sample of adult skin
plMb TIL of McRefugees, people who use McDonald’s ‘doors always open policy’ and 'live’ in McDonald’s restaurants due to the high living costs in Hong Kong and Japan.