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TIL that Yellowstone National Park’s geothermal hot springs are capable of dissolving a human body overnight

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rRr4W TIL of the Montparnasse derailment in Paris. A train entered the station too fast, crashed through a wall, and fell 33 feet before landing on its nose and killing a woman standing below. A guard was fined 25 francs as he'd been preoccupied with paperwork and failed to apply the emergency handbrake.
wLo97 TIL that in many American movies, the directors often edit out many of the hits, if not all during fight scenes, and that in Hong Kong cinema, especially Jackie Chan movies, they show the hit twice.
6ywX TIL an executioner in the 1500’s left a diary detailing all 361 executions he performed in his lifetime
neyPW Today I learned 25% of mammals are threatened by extinction.
neOWo TIL rubbing alcohol makes open wounds sting because it lowers the temperature threshold of heat-detecting VR1 receptors--so much so that your own body heat triggers a burning sensation