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TIL White torture is the most horrible torture method known

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XdO8 TIL The ‘Irish Giant’ Charles Byrne was so afraid that the surgeon John Hunter wanted his body dissection and display, he arranged to be buried at sea. Hunter snatched Byrne’s cadaver on the way to the burial, reduced Byrne’s body to its skeleton and put it in his museum where it still remains
wod17 TIL that the Toba Supervolcano which almost wiped out humanity 77,000 years ago has a magma chamber containing over 50,000 cubic kilometres of eruptible magma, more than four times the volume of Lake Superior.
wLGvE TIL In the War of 1812, the British invaded Washington DC and burned down the White House and Capitol Building. The next day a tornado and storm lifted away two canons, killed troops, and damaged ships. The British retreated.
1a5V4 TIL of a Russian game show where the contestant was given a car that was reported stolen to the police and if the contestant evaded the police for 35 minutes, the contestant won the car.
P1QKe Today I learned Bout Mount Key, an artificial island build by the Calusa, made from discarded seashells