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TIL about "Terminal Lucidity." The unexpected return of mental clarity and memory shortly before the death of patients suffering from severe psychiatric and neurologic disorders

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j91X TIL a man excavated his entire basement using only RC trucks over a span of 7 years.
j6rvj TIL: The Berklee School of Music was named after the founders son: Lee Elliot Berk.
mxP7v TIL the Pyramids are so well built that when a Sultan's workers tried to destroy a small Pyramid 3000 years after its construction, they could only move 1-2 stones a day and gave up after creating only a gash after eight months
xmL5 TIL In 1932, William Faulkner was offered a $500-a-week contract ($8,500 today) to write scripts at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer but didn’t have enough money to send a telegram to answer yes.