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TIL that the only mention of the wicker man in the ancient times comes from Julius Caesar on his Gallic wars, and later Strabo in his Geographica

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9wp1B TIL about the time the Thomas Jefferson teamed up with Joseph-Ignace Guillotin on a special mission for the French Crown to determine whether Mesmerism was quackery or not
N9E8 TIL that sword swallowing is not an illusion of any kind: the performer actually pushes the sword down their oesophagus and into their stomach. 29 deaths resulting from sword swallowing have been reported since 1880.
R7re9 TIL that In February 1939, Lise Meitner described a groundbreaking nuclear phenomenon in a letter to Nature editor and called it Nuclear Fission. Five years later, a Nobel prize was awarded to Otto Hahn for the discovery of fission; a word he never used in his original paper.
85J4 TIL The beginning of History is marked by the invention of the library. The first libraries consisted of archives of the earliest form of writing, cuneiform tablets discovered in temple rooms in Sumer dating back to 2600 BC. These archives mark the end of prehistory and the beginning of history.
XrOP TIL the chemical name for titin is approximately 189,819 letters long and can take over three hours to pronounce.