TIL If you can voluntarily control your middle ear (tensor tympani) muscles to create a rumbling noise inside your head, you are extremely rare.
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PubMed
Voluntary contraction of the tensor tympani muscle and its audiometric effects - PubMed
The importance of the tensor tympani muscle in middle-ear physiology remains unclear. It has been related to the attenuation of sounds produced during the mastication process. Voluntary control over the tensor tympani muscle is an extremely rare event. However…
TIL there is a Hindu Patron God of Transgenders
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Iravan
minor character from the Hindu epic Mahabharata
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TIL liquid nitrogen is not poisonous but can expand up to 695 times in volume when it vaporizes and has no warning properties such as odor or color. If this happens, it can displace oxygen and cause unconsciousness or even death.
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Liquid Nitrogen Handling | Environmental Health and Safety
Purpose and Applicability
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TIL Tennis Legend Andre Agassi Admitted in His Autobiography That He Hated Tennis but Continued to Play Due to Family Pressure and Talent
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A Tennis Star Who Hates Tennis?
Widely considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Andre Agassi admits in a new autobiography that he hates tennis, "with a dark and secret passion." Always has. He's here to talk with host Terry Gross about what he calls the "contradictions"…
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TIL of the Edinburgh Seven, the first women to matriculate at a British university in 1869. The university discriminated them with charging higher fees. As they arrived at their anatomy exam, several hundred male students pelted them with mud and other objects and shoved a sheep into the exam hall.
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The University of Edinburgh
Sophia Jex-Blake and the Edinburgh Seven
Sophia Jex-Blake led the Edinburgh Seven, the first women to matriculate at a British university, in the fight to allow women to qualify as doctors in Britain.
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TIL that the final Boeing 707 in service crashed in 2019, resulting in a sole survivor
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Submitted September 08, 2023 at 02:43PM by RADICCHI0
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2019 Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crash
On 14 January 2019, a Boeing 707 operated by Saha Airlines on a cargo flight crashed at Fath Air Base, near Karaj, Alborz Province in Iran. Fifteen of the sixteen people on board were killed. This aircraft was the last civil Boeing 707 in operation.
TIL that a retired print technician from Yorkshire David Smith in 2023 discovered the Einstein tile, a single tile that is capable of tiling the plane aperiodically thereby solving a long standing open problem in mathematics.
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Submitted September 08, 2023 at 02:34PM by Reginaferguson
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Einstein problem
problem in geometry
TIL that 40% of the population of Deerfield, Massachusetts, was kidnapped in 1704, mostly women and children.
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The French-Canadian Genealogist
1704 Deerfield Captives Abigail Nims, Josiah Rising/Raizenne and Sarah Allen — The French-Canadian Genealogist
Read the fascinating story about how 3 children from Deerfield, Massachusetts, were kidnapped and taken to Quebec in 1704 by French troops and their indigenous allies. Abigail Nims, Josiah Rising (who became Raizenne) and Sarah Allen remained in New France…
TIL that Marie Antoinette adopted Jean Amilcar, an enslaved Senegalese child. She released him from slavery and sent him to a boarding school, paying his fees until her execution.
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Submitted September 08, 2023 at 03:58PM by Matuko
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Jean Amilcar
foster son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
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TIL Joey Ramone was born with a parasitic twin growing out of his back.
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Submitted September 08, 2023 at 08:04PM by have_course_you_of
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Joey Ramone
American punk rock singer (1946–2001)
TIL that author J.K. Rowling often relied on the fan-made Harry Potter Lexicon while writing the 'Harry Potter' books: "I have been known to sneak into an Internet café while out writing and check a fact rather than go into a bookshop and buy a copy of 'Harry Potter', which is embarrassing."
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The Harry Potter Lexicon
online encyclopedia of the Harry Potter series
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TIL Abraham Lincoln was attending a performance of the comedy "Our American Cousin" when John Wilkes Booth killed him. Booth timed the shooting with the show's funniest moment so that the crowd's laughter would drown out the sound of the shooting.
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Submitted September 08, 2023 at 09:33PM by res30stupid
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Our American Cousin
Play by Tom Taylor
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TIL that "heat lightning" is just regular lightning that has been observed from far away, and thus able to be seen but not heard. It is not a different type of lightning.
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Submitted September 08, 2023 at 05:46PM by AlwaysTheNoob
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TIL about Popcorn Lung, a disease caused by a chemical in artificial butter flavoring. In 2012 a microwavable popcorn consumer was awarded US$7.27 million in damages after contracting the disease.
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Submitted September 08, 2023 at 11:33PM by Durian_Queef
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Artificial butter flavoring
culinary liquid mimicking flavor of butter
TIL that medical students disproportionately come from affluent backgrounds
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Study finds medical students disproportionately come from affluent backgrounds
A new study conducted by medical school students and faculty at the University of Minnesota found that medical students of all racial backgrounds disproportionately come from affluent backgrounds. The study raises questions about the importance of socioeconomic…
TiL that it can be illegal to put laxatives in your own food to prevent someone stealing your lunch. Bummer!
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Submitted September 09, 2023 at 01:04AM by LissyVee
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Coolidge Law Firm
Don’t Put Laxatives in Someone’s Food: It Could Be a Felony
So, Midge at work has been stealing your lunches? Getting tired of making the perfect sandwich creation only to see half of it in the trash? We bet you’ve labeled, written notes, and even tried to
TIL There are no Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants in Buffalo
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Submitted September 09, 2023 at 12:51AM by Justananomaly
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Buffalowildwings
Locations in
Stop in at any of our Buffalo Wild Wings locations in undefined to watch sports, play trivia, or have a happy hour with your favorite wings and beer
TIL The first spam email was sent in 1978 by Gary Thuerk, a marketing manager at Digital Equipment Corporation. He sent an unsolicited message to 400 recipients on ARPANET, the precursor of the internet, promoting a new computer system.
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Submitted September 08, 2023 at 11:42PM by Algrinder
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History of email spam
aspect of history
TIL Gustav III of Sweden got a letter saying he was about to be killed at the masked ball he was attending later. He dared the would-be assassins by standing in an open box at the opera house for 10 minutes. Since he didn't get shot there, he deemed it was safe to join the crowd...where he got shot
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Gustav III
Gustav III (24 January [O.S. 13 January] 1746 – 29 March 1792),note on dates also called Gustavus III, was King of Sweden from 1771 until his assassination in 1792. He was the eldest son of King Adolf Frederick and Queen Louisa Ulrika of Sweden.
Today I learned that using the word "period" to refer to menstruation is an artifact from the 19th century, when explicitly talking about menstruation was considered taboo, so euphemisms were used instead.
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Submitted September 09, 2023 at 05:21AM by wimpykidfan37
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Helloclue
Is period slang ever useful?
What's the effect of using period euphemisms and slang?
TIL the US constitution protects both ritual animal sacrifice and sports coaches holding public prayer with players before a sports game. Theoretically, a coach could sacrifice a goat to Satan before every little league game, and the state could not lawfully intervene or stop them.
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Submitted September 09, 2023 at 07:27AM by CPoundMeHarder
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Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah
1993 United States Supreme Court case