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TIL that the Spanish basketball team that won the 2000 special olympics were faking their disability

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OoQ5R TIL that anatomist Antonio Valsalva sometimes tasted the fluids of cadavers he performed autopsies on. Quote: "Gangrenous pus does not taste good...leaving the tongue tingling unpleasantly for the better part of the day"
v1Ljx TIL Helen Keller took over the controls of a Douglas Skymaster airplane for 20 minutes while flying over the Mediterranean during a trip from Rome to Paris. The instructions were relayed from the pilot to Polly Thompson, and then to Helen through fingerspelling.
m1Dnx TIL The reason why we view Neanderthals as hunched over and degenerate is that the first skeleton to be found was arthritic.
JQ6l TIL that an Oxford University study has found that for every person you fall in love with and accommodate into your life you lose two close friends.
nep9o TIL that three people stole $18 million dollars worth of Maple Syrup in Quebec. This was over the course of about a year.