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TIL that if a person is being crushed for hours (e.g. by earthquake debris), they should not be removed too quickly. Otherwise toxins from dying muscle may flood their bloodstream and kill them.

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JBGm TIL When the Westboro Baptist Church announced via Twitter that they would protest Steve Job’s funeral, they tweeted it from an iPhone.
D1jr TIL that “Overmorrow” is a word that means “the day after tomorrow” and is considered obsolete. But I think it should make a comeback.
WVJo TIL There’s a gang of jewel thieves called the Pink Panthers. It’s believed they’ve stolen $Billions. Attention to detail is their reason for success. They once painted a bench across from a jewelry store before a robbery, so people wouldn’t sit on the bench (fresh paint) and see them mid-robbery.
X04jr TIL Americans have used metric daily for 200+ years. We spend cents, not "pennies". Our least valued coin was an intentionally break from the pre-decimal British "penny" and aligned us with our French allies after the revolution. Cent is from the Latin centum or hundred(th), as in centimeter.
R7n79 TIL of Stendhal syndrome which is a psychosomatic disorder that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, fainting, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to an experience of great personal significance, particularly viewing art.