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TIL that of the 165 bombs dropped by the Allies on Pompeii in 1943, at least 10 are left to be found in the areas of the site that haven't been excavated yet

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4XYjN TIL in 1963 that a 21-year-old rock and roll star named Ulysses Baxter pushed a peanut up Pikes Peak mountain with his nose! He had attached a salad spoon to his nose and pushed for 8 days until he reached the summit. The craziest part is that he wasn't even the first to do this!
R7ge7 TIL Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder can be recognized on people of all ages by examining several distinct facial features, such as a “smooth philtrum” (AKA lack of groove between nose & lip)
nenbG TIL that Shark Tank pitches usually last an hour, and the longest ever was 2 1/2 hours long. These are edited down to just 10 minutes for TV viewers
yV8OM TIL about Jack Parsons, rocket scientist and occultist, friend of Aliester Crowley and L Ron Hubbard, who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and died in an explosion.
7r1PM TIL that the popular sleep-aid Ambien has been shown to make paralyzed and brain-damaged people, who have been well past the point of recovery, spontaneously move and talk again because it can reconstruct neurons and make new connections in the brain.