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neEW7 TIL Vikings transported their ships overland to get past difficult stretches of water. Smaller ships would be carried by hand using poles, while larger ships would be pulled across tree branches. To trade with Turks, they would carry their boats 10km overland to get to the Black Sea.
gr9MD TIL one of the inventors of the modern MRI machine first tested it on himself. Dr. Peter Mansfield of Nottingham University went inside the full-sized prototype in 1978, producing the first MRI scan of a live patient
GA9kE TIL that Meriwether Lewis suffered bouts of depression and probably committed suicide only a few years after completing the famous Lewis and Clark expedition.
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