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TIL Chloroform isn’t good for kidnapping - it takes at least five minutes of inhaling an item soaked in chloroform to render a person unconscious

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7rNQZ TIL The brazen bull was invented in Athens between 570 and 554 BC during the reign of Phalaris, tyrant of Acragas, Sicily,. The first test subject was the guy that built it.
5VYRk TIL A lab in Guangzhou, China breeds infertile mosquitoes in a lab and releases them to slow the spread of diseases like Zika and Malaria.
41ww TIL Myopia is extremely uncommon among nonhuman primates but researchers can easily induce it by depriving infant monkeys of normal outdoor lighting levels. Outdoor lighting is usually about 100 times more intense than what you get inside
xNNo TIL that Washington, D.C. uses a series of acoustic sensors called “ShotSpotter” to detect gunfire. When “ShotSpotter” sensors detect a loud noise, a central computer program analyzes the acoustic signature, pinpoints the suspected location to within a few yards and notifies police.
kjRg TIL that the Ancient Greeks had a word, akrasia, to describe the lack of will that prevents us from doing something that we know is good for us