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TIL Lizards can’t walk and breathe at the same time

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v1ZyL TIL John Lennon tried to convince Paul McCartney to drill a hole in his skull as part of a practice called trepanning explaining “All you’d have to do is just bore a little hole in your skull and it lets the pressure off. Paul replied ‘ John, you try it and let me know how it goes.'”
Y7Q1G TIL Shige Sakakura was a Japanese baby farmer and serial killer who, together with her accomplices Tsuta Oki and Naka Ikai, murdered around 200 infants between 1898 and 1913. Their crimes were uncovered when a geisha was denied access to her child and reported them. All three were hanged in 1915.
16KWr TIL that 1-800-ChatGPT you can message it with your phone
e0644 TIL in the original airing of “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,” Rudolph visited the island of Misfit Toys and promised to help them, but never actually did. Tons of children wrote to Rankin-Bass, concerned for the toys, and got the company to make another scene showing the toys had been saved.
nWrgr TIL in 1990 an 8 year old girl with cerebral palsy named Jennifer Keelan left her wheelchair and crawled up the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building to urge Congress to pass the Americans with Disabilities Act which had been stalled in committee. It was signed into law a few months later.