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TIL about Taphephobia: the fear of being buried alive as a result of being incorrectly pronounced dead, and that before the era of modern medicine the fear was not entirely irrational and quite common.

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VBOPk TIL: Last year in 2023, a 2 decade mystery was solved regarding the identity of an Iron Age warrior. Using the tooth enamel, the warrior was a woman, suggesting women played a larger role in warfare. Being buried with a sword and mirror suggests she may have lead raids as a commander.
0wodM TIL about Joybubbles, a blind man who at age 5 figured he could make free long distance phone calls by using his perfect pitch to whistle. He later went on to create a non profit where he called terminally ill children and talked to them paying for the call himself.
loO9N TIL that Kodinhi a small town in Kerala India is reported to have a whopping 250 pairs of twins born to just 2000 families, that’s more than six times the global average and one of the highest twinning rates in the world.
eorn TIL in the late 80’s, Weird Al turned down 5 million dollars to star in a beer commercial. He said he turned it down because he believed that a lot of his fans were young and impressionable
1ak8X TIL ,The Human Language Pathway – How old the Human Language Really Is - History has never failed to disappoint mankind, instead, studying history is the only way to realize the purpose of existence. Linguistic capabilities are something all humans possess naturally