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TIL Benjamin Franklin used to talk to his own Gout attack, who he named "Madam Gout"

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woAB8 TIL about the Cerutti Mastodon Site. A site that some researchers claim shows evidence of some type of hominid living in N. America ~130,000 years ago. The previous estimate was only ~24,000 years ago.
e0bNb TIL after four months of rejections Kim O'Grady added 'Mr.' to his name on resume/CV and almost immediately landed a job.
YlyW TIL in 1926, Agatha Christie vanished without a trace. Thousands of volunteers helped search, along with planes in the sky, and dogs on the ground. After 11 days, a musician recognized her at a hotel, where she was living under a fake name. Christie died without ever having explained her absence.
rRyky TIL the Allies had plenty of opportunities to assassinate Hitler; but didn't, because he was a terrible strategist (Any replacement would have been more competent and therefore worse for the Allies).
QrVE TIL that motion sickness is due to confusion between perceived movement and actual movement. The brain’s conclusion is that one of the senses is hallucinating due to poison ingestion; the brain then induces vomiting to clear the supposed toxin.