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TIL In 1965, a patent was filed for a "birthing apparatus" which would spin pregnant women around at as much as 7G until their baby was flung out from the centrifugal force.

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9wLmr TIL Orcas (“killer whales”) comes from the name Orcinus, which means "of the kingdom of the dead", or "belonging to Orcus".
Yp9PW TIL In the third century the Roman Empire was split into several regions with several leaders. One of those leaders Constantine had ambitions to retake the Roman Empire. He lacked an army large enough to do so. He decided if he converted to Christianity the Christians would fight for him. He won.
8aL8P TIL the owner of nissan.com and nissan.net was in a 20 year legal battle against Nissan Motor for control over the domain names. After many years of lawsuits and appeals, Nissan never got control over neither domain
l7RAV TIL In 1988 Ivan McGuire, an experienced skydiver with 800 recorded dives jumped from the plane for his 3rd dive that day. He had his camera rig with him but completely forgot to equip a parachute rig, thus he jumped to his death from 10.000 feet. The camera footage of the fatal fall survived
OlN7 TIL the man that figured out how old Planet Earth really is was the same one who discovered world-wide environmental lead contamination which eventually lead to leaded gasoline’s banning.