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TIL that Ben Franklin had 10+ bodies buried in his basement, which he probably obtained via the black market, in order to study human anatomy.

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MeDYV TIL: A new theory suggest Moses and the burning bush was not an event, but a vision created through the use of DMT created from the peganum harmala bush which was common in the region where evidence exist it was used in religious ceremony.
Z89oo TIL the television show “Star Trek” aired 22 years before the first evidence of an exoplanet, in 1988, (planet outside our solar system) and 26 years before the first confirmed observation of exoplanet.
nG1G TIL that imgur serves more images in ten minutes than there are in the entire Library of Congress.
Meg9m TIL of Adam Rainer, the only known person in history to be both a giant and a dwarf, he was 3’8” at age 19, and 7’8” at age 51
KOmeE TIL Darwin believed that white people were more evolved than black people. He also believed that males were superior to females.