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TIL The lump you feel in your throat when you’re nervous or crying is an autonomic response to stress that expands the glottis in an attempt to provide you with more oxygen.

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naPr TIL that Doc Holliday’s last words, while looking at his bootless feet while laying in bed, were “Damn, this is funny.” Apparently he, like many others, never believed he would die in a bed with his boots off.
Lkypr TIL British-made A.D.E. 651 advertised as a foolproof bomb detector. Tens of millions of dollars’ worth were bought by Baghdad military. They turned out to be pieces of plastic with antennae glued on at the end and their batteries were business cards with the word C4 markered on them.
mxKXv TIL a Judge ordered a suspect to have mouth taped during sentencing.
YYmr TIL Margaret Ann Neve is history’s first recorded supercentarian, having lived in the 18th, 19th and 20th century.
VbaZ TIL during WWII, Dutch railroad workers went on strike to undermine the German war effort. In response the Germans blocked food supplies to the country, resulting in a famine that killed over 20,000