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TIL a man accused during the Salem witch trials refused to enter a plea, preventing him from being tried. In an attempt to elicit one, he was tortured by pressing, a technique by which the victim is slowly crushed. Each time he was asked for a plea, his only response was "more rocks".
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TIL a team of 3 students won $700K for using AI to decipher the first passages of a 2,000-year-old scroll; 1 of 800 scrolls that were carbonized by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 CE. Since their discovery in the 1700s, trying to read them proved futile because unrolling them by hand caused damage
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TIL Dr. August Bier, a German physician, pioneered spinal anesthesia using cocaine injections. To test its numbing effects, Bier injected cocaine into his assistant’s spine, beat his legs with hammers, pulled his testicles, drove a needle into his femur, and even ripped out his pubic hair.
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