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TIL that early forensics utilized a now debunked form of pseudoscience called Optography, which was also used in the Jack the Ripper case

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dDLEB TIL that those little cracks you see in dried out soil are called "dessication cracks," or simply "mudcracks."
9yjX TIL that women can orgasm just from doing core exercises. They’re called “Coregasms”
6KJW TIL that alchemist Hennig Brand believed that he could distill gold from human urine. After stockpiling 1,500 gallons of the liquid and boiling it, he discovered phosphorus.
8eMxL TIL that a school teacher once won a free trip to outer space but the rocketship blew up and everyone died
9YeLB TIL of Candance Newmaker, a child who was killed during a 70-minute attachment therapy session purported to treat reactive attachment disorder. The treatment, during which Candace was suffocated, included a rebirthing script which led to her suffocation.