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

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R7v7 TIL: tampons have been used in war since world war 1 to address gun shot wounds, as well as our beloved twinkies
X0XJX TIL the first televised vice-presidential debate was in October 1976 between Republican Bob Dole and Democrat Walter Mondale. Mondale and running mate Jimmy Carter went on to defeat incumbent Gerald Ford in the presidential election that November.
NXPe TIL a supply specialist in the Korean War didn’t know the code word for mortar rounds and sent crates full of Tootsie Rolls to Marines in need of mortar rounds
6ODW TIL Nuclear power is actually better environmentally than coal.
loONN TIL that Steve Irwin's father refused a state funeral for his son because in the words of his son, he was an "ordinary bloke".