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TIL "feeling that something is wet is quite a feat because our skin does not have receptors that sense wetness"

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ep7gk TIL that before haunted houses, 16th-century elites hosted “black or hell banquets.” Dating to ancient Rome, Emperor Domitian hosted a banquet where guests were assigned a seat with a personalized gravestone. The menu consisted of food usually offered as sacrifices for the departed.
KYEDE TIL that low magnesium can cause both severe mental and physical side effects
EgP47 TIL there's a fishing line strung between electrical poles that travels continuously around the entire perimeter of manhattan
e0Jeg TIL the theory of dinosaurs' mass extinction by a meteorite was proposed somewhat recently, In 1980
WkXno TIL about the art piece "Machine with Concrete" by Arthur Ganson. It's a series of gears and screws driven at 200RPM that end in a final gear embedded in concrete. At that speed it will take over 2 trillion years for the final gear to turn once.