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TIL Great Britain’s population doubled during the Victorian Era

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xVaP5 TIL Snails’ teeth are the strongest natural material on Earth, able to withstand pressures high enough to turn carbon into diamond.
5mXD Today I Learned that there are libraries around the world in which you can check-out humans as a living book and listen to their stories.
OG4La TIL that in ancient Rome, they used a punishment called "Poena cullei" for patricide. The condemned person was sewn into a sack with live animals such as dogs, snakes, monkeys, and chickens, then thrown into water.
XE1b8 TIL that marrie Currie notebook is so radioactive it has to be stored in a lead box, and visitors have to sign a waiver before they can see it.
QJlXd TIL in 1946, a black WWII veteran was taking a bus home in uniform, and asked the driver to stop for a bathroom break. The driver called the police, and the local chief of police arrested the man, beat him, and gouged out his eyes with a nightstick. The officer was acquitted by an all-white jury.