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TIL A few months ago a team of doctors at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, successfully treated spina bifida in an unborn baby. This was the first case in Europe.

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xVZKg Today I learned about the Moche Toss, an ancient Peruvian game a lot like skeet shooting using Atlatls
Y4Ox TIL that Elephants are excellent swimmers. They swim submerged underwater using their trunks as snorkels. African Elephants have been recorded swimming 48km .They can swim 6 hours nonstop then rest without sinking.
DLOJ TIL that in WWI even though the officers knew that at 11 am there was a cease fire areement, they kept on sending troops into no-mans land and shelling the enemy lines, right up to 10:59 am. About 2,000 people died with only hours left of fighting.
gMONb TIL there are catfish in France which beach themselves in order to eat pigeons
KOrQB TIL that "potter's field," a term synonymous with mass graves, has a Biblical origin. It refers to an extremely clay-rich parcel of land in Jerusalem, purchased with the 30 pieces of silver which Judas returned to the chief priests. Useless for farming, the land was used to bury strangers.