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TIL During the French Revolution someone promised to keep blinking as long as he could after he was beheaded as an experiment. A friend watched. It took about 15-seconds before he stopped.

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ANae4 TIL If it wasn't for the fact that ice is less dense than water, and therefore floats, life on Earth would not exist.
e0vv6 TIL The first recorded autopsy was performed in 44 B.C. on Julius Caesar to determine which of the 23 stab wounds he received had killed him. (It was a chest wound that severed his aorta.)
d8Bnr TIL: Paris had a pneumatic post system, where you could send your mail through tubes until 1984!
P6vL TIL when TWA Flight 1 crashed into a mountain in 1936, surviving flight attendant Nellie Granger followed telephone wires for 4 miles to get help and call the TWA office and notify them of the crash. Nobody realized that the plane had crashed before the call. She then walked back with help.