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TIL it's possible to buy real human bones online
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TIL Tom Hanks owns more than 300 typewriters. His fascination runs so deep that he even developed an app, Hanx Writer, designed to emulate the feel and sound of a classic typewriter on modern devices.
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TIL that the author of the original Bambi story wrote a fictional pornographic autobiography of a child prostitute in Vienna that was so period accurate that literature scholars debated for decades as to whether it was a true story for decades.
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TIL that by 2011, 10 tons of human excrement had been excavated from a cesspit beneath Herculaneum, one of the towns that was destroyed Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Due to how much time had passed since the eruption, the excrement had no unpleasant odor when it was discovered
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TIL: When an F18 is catapulted from its carrier, the pilot doesn’t actually take the controls. The acceleration is so brisk that the pilot would pitch down thinking that the nose was to high and crash into the ocean. They instead just hold handle they call the “towel rail”
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TIL Black mold can essentially “cause you to lose your personality”. Toxic Mold Syndrome primarily affects the respiratory symptoms. But it has also been linked to more serious, long-term effects on the brain, like memory loss, insomnia, anxiety, depression, trouble concentrating, and confusion.