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TIL pseudoscorpions are a thing

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XJGX TIL that sports games are televised to their completion instead of a set time because of a football game called the Heidi Game that was cut short before a 2 touchdown upset in the last minute.
Z4BG TIL Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capital without a McDonald’s, Burger King, or Walmart
1aw47 TIL in the late 1960s, some researchers reported catnip gave people a marijuana-like high, but it turned out they had simply mixed up the two plants.
GAww1 TIL that in 1926, Nikola Tesla predicted modern cell phones. Tesla described a future "when wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth" in a way that allows humans "to communicate with one another instantly irrespective of distance" with the clarity of a face-to-face meeting using a device.
7rWjZ TIL that Robert Liston -A pioneering Scottish surgeon- known as "the fastest knife in the West End" Amputated A leg in two and a half minutes, but in his enthusiasm the patient's testicles as well.