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TIL London is technically a forest

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yV08l TIL that the scientific term for "brain freeze" is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. It occurs when something cold touches the roof of your mouth, causing blood vessels in the area to constrict and then rapidly dilate, triggering pain.
grAn9 TIL LBJ had two dogs die at the White House: Her swallowed a stone, and Him was hit by a car.
paO8 TIL that the battle of Cannae was so utterly devastating that Rome declared a day of mourning because there was no one in the city who was not either related to or knew someone who had died.
x6eW5 TIL that the Alf TV series ended with Alf kidnapped by the US government (which wanted to disect Alf). Originally a season finale cliffhanger, this ended up being the series finale.
Vxo0 TIL a man won the right to a retrial as members of the jury used a Ouija board to contact the victims.