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TIL Sugar cures the hiccups 19 out of 20 cases
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TIL of Edward Pulaski, a firefighter who in 1910 saved the lives of most of his forty-five man crew by leading them into an abandoned mine shaft when they were surrounded by a wildfire, and then personally stopping the fire from following them despite being badly burned.
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TIL France once bought 2,000 trains that were too wide to fit in many platforms in the country. The government has to spend millions of euros to widen many platforms in order to allow the trains to fit.
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TIL Nudge Theory is a method of influencing behavior of groups or individuals that uses indirect suggestions to achieve non-forced compliance. It's so widely used, governments around the world have setup "Nudge units" to influence public thinking and decision making.
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TIL that the astronautical term “Black Holes” are coined from a completely irrelevant event in 1756, which entails the death of POWs from suffocation and heat exhaustion from being overpacked into a dungeon overnight.
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TIL: The Yellowstone Park bison herd (approx. 5,500) is descended from a remnant population of 23 individual bison that survived a mass slaughter in the 19th century by hiding out in the Pelican Valley of Yellowstone Park.