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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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lpeV TIL Merriam-Webster’s headquarters in Springfield, MA has had a strict “silence” policy for over 60 years. Before email communication was conducted either behind closed doors or via 3x5 notecards.
4XYDa TIL a Japanese man has been sending identical handwritten letters weekly to a hotel in the Netherlands for the last 40 years.
KOAyG TIL about Emperor Pedro II of Brazil who was an avid supporter of science education and a respected intellectual in his own right. Charles Darwin himself said that “The Emperor does so much for science, that every scientific man is bound to show him the utmost respect.”
W7JrX TIL that if a Harvard student is found guilty of plagiarism or other cheating, they're not allowed to submit a course evaluation for that class
LkMep TIL printers print nearly invisible codes on your documents which contain information like the date and time it was printed and the printers serialnumber. And some engineers outsmarted this.