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TIL humans have no sense for wetness, only temperature and pressure

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v95r TIL that in 6BC the Greeks dug a tunnel over 1,000m long through a mountain by digging from both ends and meeting in the middle. Ingenious surveying and geometrical techniques were used to ensure the two tunnels didn’t miss.
7e9M TIL there is a church in Rome that is lined with skeletons and has a plaque in 3 languages that reads “What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be.”
9nJp TIL famed volcanologist Maurice Krafft said “I have seen so much eruptions in 23 years that even if I die tomorrow, I don’t care”, The very next day him and his wife were killed by a pryoclastic flow
oBwQr TIL that "Five-O" being slang for "police" was inspired by the TV show "Hawaii Five-0" (and not the other way around). "Hawaii Five-0" was named that in honor of Hawaii being the 50th state to join the United States
5xmR TIL, in 1981, a man who had been bullying residents of a small Missouri town was murdered in broad daylight when 46 townspeople rose up against him, in an act of vigilante justice. No charges were ever filed despite their being 30 - 40 witness to the shooting.