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TIL that a treatment for rheumatism used to be to sit in the belly of a decomposing whale for 30 hours.

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neGm9 TIL that the Voyager probes took more than 40 years traveling at 40,000 mph to leave our solar system, but it will be another 40,000 years before they get anywhere near another star
E1N90 TIL a Japanese teenager, Yaoya Oshichi, was tried for attempted arson in 1682. She did this because she wanted to reunite with a temple worker she met at another fire. They tried to try her as a minor, but she didn't pick up on the judge's hints to lie about her age. She was burned at the stake.
lJZa TIL a pair of twins, June and Jennifer, spoke in a cryptic language only to each other for 30 years. After 14 years in a mental hospital, one of the twins was found dead, with no apparent cause. The living twin finally spoke: “I’m free at last, liberated, and Jennifer has given up her life for me.”
XEa7E TIL in 1978 Ford Motor Company had to recall 1.5 million Ford Pintos for fuel tank design defects which made the vehicles susceptible to explosive fire if the car was rear ended at more than 20 MPH.
lkK7 TIL Pregnant women who swallow their partner’s semen has a reduced risk of preeclampsia - a potentially dangerous pregnancy complication characterised by high blood pressure.