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TIL 36 men volunteered to starve for a year in an experiment, known as the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, to study the psychological and physiological effects of starvation

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690ZW TIL about Iceland's most famous witch trial in 1656, where a father and son, both named Jón Jónsson, were burnt at the stake for using "farting runes" (magical symbols) to curse a woman and a priest with chronic abdominal pain and weakness.
N7NY8 TIL Yuri Gagarin did not land in his Space craft, Vostok. He ejected at 20,000 feet, parachuting safely to Earth, landing near the Volga River.
nWEG TIL that in J.J. Abram’s 2009 Star Trek, R2-D2 can be seen floating in the debris field of the starships destroyed by Nero.
49yo TIL that actress Robin Wright had to get really drunk on tequila before filming a sex scene with Woody Harrelson because he is “like a brother” to her.
N8W8 TIL that John R. Fox deliberately called for artillery fire on his own position, after his position was overrun, in order to defeat a German attack in the vicinity of Sommocolonia, northern Italy during World War II.