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TIL the Elephant Man had to sleep sitting up. One night he tried to sleep lying down, to be 'like other people', and he died from a dislocated neck.

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wLaZE TIL about Māori chin tattoos. For Māori women, the traditional female chin tattoo is considered a physical manifestation of their true identity.
6EQpJ TIL scientists are going to try and bring back the northern white rhino from extinction by combining the eggs from the southern white rhino with the cryopreserved sperm of a northern white rhino to create viable embryos and embryonic stem cells!
d8owE TIL that Swedish band Roxette gained fame in the US thanks to an exchange student, Dean Cushman, who brought their album back home with him from Sweden
0d5N TIL that in France in the 1500s, women could charge their husbands with impotence. He would have to become erect and show he could ejaculate in a courtroom. If he failed, he could demand a Trial by Congress and attempt to have sex with his wife in front of the experts.
wmnP TIL David Kirwan, 24, jumped into a near-boiling hot spring at 200°F (93°C) in Yellowstone, after his dog escaped the truck and ran into the Celestine Pool and began yelping. Several people tried to stop him by yelling warnings, but he replied “Like hell I won’t!” and then entered. Both perished.