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TIL that erotic automaton pocket watches were a fad in the day.
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TIL A competitor in the Olympics had his neck snapped in a wrestling match resulting in his death but also won the match posthumously as his opponent tapped out.
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TIL Eleanor Roosevelt held her own press conferences where only female journalists were allowed. This ensured they kept their jobs during Depression-era layoffs, earning a steady income & professional status.
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Today I learned that the Fairy Fountain music in the Legend of Zelda games is in fact a rearrangement of the Water Land music from Mario 3.
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TIL That in 2017, the Turkish State destroyed a Cemetery of Kurdish Fighters, dug up the remains of 282 of them, and had them "reburied" in plastic boxes on top of each other under a pavement at a Jewish Cemetery in Istanbul in a section for the nameless, far away from their relatives.
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TIL: Researchers at Yale University School of Medicine devised a system roughly analogous to a dialysis machine, called BrainEx, that restores circulation and oxygen flow to a dead brain. Using BrainEx, they restored restored cellular function in 32 pig brains that had been dead for over four hours.