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TIL that the scientific name for a Brain Freeze is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia

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wLEPE TIL James Watt calculated horsepower by measuring the output of an actual horse in order to quantify how many horses his steam engines could replace.
Obre TIL that in 1944, the British conceived a plan to assassinate Hitler while he was staying at his vacation residence. However, they ultimately decided against it as Hitler was such a poor strategist at that stage that they believed whoever replaced him would do a better job of fighting the Allies.
Xb7k TIL: One of the oldest and most effective asthma meds, Albuterol, was $15 per inhaler in 2000, now after it was re-patented it is $100.
ebob TIL that some Koreans are trying to rename their country back to “Corea”. They believe that Japan changed the spelling to “Korea” so Japanese athletes would march first at the 1908 Olympics.
1Ve8 TIL ancient Egyptians used meteorites as jewelry