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TIL Chinese has so many characters that even China’s standard dictionary once forgot to include 30 already used in its preface

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grK1D TIL An anatomy professor named Dr Pedro Ara, best known for embalming Eva Peron and composer Manuel de Falla, carried the preserved head of an elderly peasant in his luggage to show off his skills to potential clients.
Wk0dL TIL a study titled "Where Are They Now?" in 1978 followed up on 515 people who were prevented from attempting suicide using the Golden Gate Bridge from 1937 to 1971. About 90% were either alive or had died of natural causes, concluding "suicidal behavior is crisis-oriented" rather than inexorable.
l7OrV TIL before the invention of ice cream cones, ice cream was served in reusable glass containers called "penny licks" which were notorious for spreading disease because they were reused & never washed between customers.
YRjP TIL there is a school in Tracy, CA named Millenium High School. They’re mascot is the Falcon. They are the Millenium Falcons.
R7lB8 TIL Hitler saved 1 Jew from the Holocaust: a doctor who treated his mother for cancer