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TIL lobsters were once considered “poverty food” and served to prisoners and servants

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QNd9d TIL I learned the blocks used to build the Pyramids of Giza weigh an average of 2.5 tons, some blocks weigh up to 50 tons!
9YmxQ TIL the inventor of the RICE protocol for injuries (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation), Dr. Gabe Mirkin, now disavows this treatment because studies show Ice and Rest delay recovery.
Me5wW TIL that a Decibel is not its own unit, but actually 1/10th of a Bel, a unit named in honor of Alexander Graham Bell for his contribution to acoustics.
v1QGD TIL the world's least valuable coin is Uzbekistan’s 1 Tiyin coin; it is worth 0.0000010 of a US dollar (or 1,000 Tiyin = 1 cent)
JYLb8 TIL the closest relative of the common head louse is the gorilla louse, which only infects gorillas. It is speculated that modern human lice are descended from gorilla lice that parasitized early humans that slept in gorilla nests or butchered gorilla corpses.