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TIL Benjamin Franklin was an advocate of “air baths”, during which he would spend up to an hour reading or writing in his house completely nude.

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jNPgQ TIL that Annie Oakley first rose to fame at the age of 15 after beating a traveling sharpshooter, whom she later married.
kOeMe TIL scientists proposed a “Minimal Turing Test” where you get to use only one word to convince others you are human, and not a machine. The single word that people found most likely to distinguish a human from a machine based on a new study was the word “poop”.
NXEWe TIL that Cavalese, Italy had two major Cable Car disasters 22 years apart (1976, 1998) with only a single survivor between them. Both times, a person who had a variant of the family name Schweizer was implicated as having caused the accident through negligence.
l7lnK TIL meticulous records were kept of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea from 1392 to 1865. One example of the contents is when King Taejong fell from a horse and immediately told those around him not to let a recorder know about it. Both his fall, and the subsequent command were recorded.
neo4W TIL A house cat bit its owner in the middle of the night to alert the family for the house fire. The family got out in time with no injuries and the fire department confirmed the cat was partially responsible for the rescue, "Hero kitty"