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TIL Not to use hand air dryers in public restrooms 🦠

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rRwMo TIL that Alexander the Great may have been buried alive (accidentally) up to six days before his death, after succumbing to Guillain-Barré Syndrome. This would have left him unable to speak or move, and his breath so shallow that he was pronounced dead.
wo6J7 TIL about Passage du Gois in France, a road that connects the mainland to Noirmoutier Island and gets submerged by water twice a day, during high tide, for around 4 hours!
Z8WmG TIL that adult males were fathers of 26.8% of babies born to mothers aged 13-14 years.
p8Q98 TIL You need to count all up to 1000 to get the first number that contains letter A
dDKK8 TIL that the original job of the coroner was to collect the revenues of the English Crown - legal fines, buried treasure, shipwrecks, and the like. This included the seized estates of suicide victims and murderers, and over time the office of coroner evolved into the modern function.