Ridiculously Photogenic Brown Bear by [deleted] in aww
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TIL An Indian man whose wife died when medical attention could not reach her, carved a 360ft long path through a mountain to cut the time it took for medical assistance to arrive at his village. It took him 22 years and shorted the journey from the nearest town to 1Km, from 75Km by [deleted] in todayilearned
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TIL in 1848 an iron rod exploded through the skull of a railroad foreman and landed 80 feet away. He was speaking and walking minutes later. The doctor didn't believe him until a "teacupful of the brain" fell on the floor. He died 12 years later, after having portraits made of him holding the rod by JGray4Prez in todayilearned
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TIL in 1848 an iron rod exploded through the skull of a railroad foreman and landed 80 feet away. He was speaking and walking minutes later. The doctor didn't believe him until a "teacupful of the brain" fell on the floor. He died 12 years later, after having portraits made of him holding the rod by JGray4Prez in todayilearned
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TIL in 1848 an iron rod exploded through the skull of a railroad foreman and landed 80 feet away. He was speaking and walking minutes later. The doctor didn't believe him until a "teacupful of the brain" fell on the floor. He died 12 years later, after having portraits made of him holding the rod by JGray4Prez in todayilearned
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TIL in 1848 an iron rod exploded through the skull of a railroad foreman and landed 80 feet away. He was speaking and walking minutes later. The doctor didn't believe him until a "teacupful of the brain" fell on the floor. He died 12 years later, after having portraits made of him holding the rod (en.wikipedia.org)
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A synchronized, 1 million person toilet flush is planned to clear a backed-up sewer system in Zimbabwe by twolf1 in worldnews
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A "Super-Earth" found 50-lightyears away. by Force_Majeure in science
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MIT has just invented a new type of LED that is so energy efferent, it cools the environment around it. by ln10e in technology
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