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TIL that there was once somehow a misconception that infants (not fetuses) somehow don't feel pain, with researchers merely assuming that newborns didn't have fully developed and functioning pain receptors. Unsurprisingly, that is inaccurate.

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1ajKD TIL that there is a deadly stream in England that accelerates water from a 30-foot-wide river through a small gap called the Bolton Strid. Rumor has it that no one who fell in has ever gotten out alive.
nlVP TIL The crime fiction author Patricia Cornwell was called “monstrously stupid” by the curator of a British museum for destroying a painting by Walter Sickert in search of proof he was Jack the Ripper
4kpY5 TIL Trota of Salerno was a 12th century female medical practitioner who wrote on a variety of topics including gynecology and cosmetics, and her writings were used by doctors for centuries
nE4P TIL Bela Lugosi, who portrayed Dracula in many films, was actually born in Transylvania
Z8544 TIL the inventor of the Saxophone, Adolphe Sax survived multiple near death experiences as a child such as; falling from a height of 3 stories and hitting his head on a stone, drinking a bowl of vitriolized water age 3 and surviving a gunpowder explosion that left him seriously burnt, among others