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TIL: Not to pinch and pull a honey bee sting out, because it releases all the venom; instead, drag it with your thumb.

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4XgRX TIL when Amiens Cathedral was about to collapse (ca. 1500), a huge iron chain was installed inside the walls while still red hot. It pulled the stone arches back into shape as it contracted and cooled.
jNQdj TIL that the co-owners of Macy’s, the Strauss brothers, visited Palestine in 1912. Isidor, decided to return to America after spending a week in Palestine. The other brother, Nathan, decided that there was more work to be done an stayed. Unfortunately, Isidor died traveling back on the Titanic
698XW TIL of Matthew Hopkins. A witch hunter who (Along with his colleague John Stearne) put so many people on trial for witchcraft that they beat out every witch Hunter of the last 160 years and single-handedly spiked executions from 1644 to 1647. Over 300 women.
worwP Today I learned the Winecoff Hotel-site of the deadliest hotel fire in history, was advertised as being "absolutely fireproof"
KO81G TIL that the word explosion is derived from the Latin word explosionem, meaning to drive off through clapping. This is an expression for the Ancient Roman practice of clapping at actors in plays that they didn’t like, until the actor was forced to leave the stage.