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TIL the vibrator was invented for doctors who were getting carpel tunnel from using their fingers to give female patients orgasms in order to treat hysteria.

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VBJdZ TIL that the Indiana Bell building was moved in 1930 using good old ingenuity and planning while business went on as usual.
Wlo8 TIL that Everest has what is called the “Graveyard in the Clouds” which is from hikers dying that haven’t been found or are unable to be recovered, but from time to time their bodies reappear after a glacier move or avalanche.
9YgM7 Today I Learned about Yasuke, the first black Samurai. He escaped from a Jesuit Mission and became a respected samurai in a year.
wVG6 TIL that in 1746, Jean-Antoine Nollet crudely estimated the speed of electricity by shocking a mile of monks
R5Yy4 TIL Despite having the Great Pyramid of Giza built during his reign, the the only known surviving intact depiction of pharaoh Khufu himself is a small 7.5 cm tall statuette