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TIL Victorian Dr John Snow first realised the care chloroform needed when 15-year-old Hannah Greener quickly lost her pulse and died when her face was covered with a dipped cloth. The surgery was to cut her toenail.

by whatilearned January 22, 2022, 3:28 pm

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TIL Copperhead snakes produce a strong odor when angry that smells like freshly cut cucumbers.

by whatilearned January 21, 2022, 2:14 pm

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TIL of Émilie Jaumain, a 24-year old lab tech who cut her finger while working with mice in 2010. 7 years later, she suddenly developed severe neck pain that spiraled into anxiety, hallucinations, and finally her death. The years-earlier accident had given her a brain-destroying prion disease.

by whatilearned January 21, 2022, 3:02 am

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TIL the republic of Transkei, announced in 1978 that it will cut diplomatic ties with South Africa, which was the only nation that recognized the country.It restored ties after it realized it was dependent on South Africa.

by whatilearned January 20, 2022, 12:17 am

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TIL that you should never cut a cat’s whiskers as they are very sensitive and cats use them to feel around. Cutting whiskers cash cause cats to become disoriented and scared, and might cause it to get stuck easily

by whatilearned January 19, 2022, 1:53 am

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Surgeons, do some people smell different (or worse) when you cut them open?

by QuestionGuy January 17, 2022, 2:55 pm

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When I was younger my big sister tried to cut off my penis

by CopyPastaArchive January 12, 2022, 6:15 pm

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Anyone else cut Facebook from their lives? And if so, how do you feel?

by QuestionGuy January 11, 2022, 9:52 am

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TIL that putting live birds in a pie was a form of entertainment in the 16th century. An Italian recipe book of 1549 described how to make a pie so that the birds survived and ‘flew out’ when it was cut open. This practice was also found in 1725 in a cookery book by John Nott.

by whatilearned December 13, 2021, 4:03 pm

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TIL in the 1950s Rebecca Webb Carranza owned a tortilla factory that sometimes made misshappen tortillas. Instead of throwing them out she cut them into triangles, fried them, and sold bags of them in the Mexican Deli. She’s credited for introducing tortilla chip into modern food culture.

by whatilearned December 11, 2021, 5:15 am

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A man walks into a magic forest and tries to cut down a talking tree…

by cringeyjokesman December 10, 2021, 3:01 pm

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TIL in The Goonies the director Richard Donner didn’t let the child actors see One-Eyed Willy’s ship so they could have a genuine reaction. When they first saw the ship some of them started to swear. So they had to use the 2nd take in the final cut.

by whatilearned December 9, 2021, 7:39 pm

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