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TIL IHunch is the name for a spinal issue caused by looking down at a phone or laptop for too long

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On9Y TIL that Jackie Kennedy called Martin Luther King jr a “terrible man” and claimed he was drunk at JFK’s funeral
BgJgD TIL Steven Seagal attempted to have a career as a Jamaican singer
WkL0d TIL the growing German city of Wuppertal needed a railway, but had nowhere to put it. A regular monorail was deemed unsuitable, and an experimental "Floating Monorail" system was selected and constructed through the city and above the river, and remains in popular use today after over 115 years.
EgnrV TIL a group of folks in New Guinea used to not want worms consuming the remains of their deceased loved ones and so decided to eat the bodies themselves. They removed the brain, mixed it with ferns, and cooked it in bamboo tubes. They ate everything at the funerals except the gall bladders
9vOB TIL The Russian Tupolev bomber aircraft Tu-95 is supposedly so loud that its noise could be detected by the submarine sonars.