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TIL The ancient Greeks may have based their mythological monsters off fossilised dinosaurs they discovered

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QlA6 TIL Nepal and Chatham Islands (of New Zealand) are the only places in the world with 15 minute offset from a standard time zone. (Nepal is UTC+05:45 and Chatham Islands is UTC+12:45 at the moment)
xV441 TIL that Father Damien, who cared for the lepers in Molokai, realized that he contracted leprosy when he accidentally stepped on scalding water and felt nothing.
Z4dR TIL that in 1847, a doctor performed an amputation in 25 seconds, operating so quickly that he accidentally amputated his assistant’s fingers as well. Both later died of sepsis, and a spectator reportedly died of shock, resulting in the only known procedure with a 300% mortality rate.
JPlQ TIL The price of entry to a zoo in 18th century England was a cat or a dog - They were fed to the lions.
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