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TIL: People who get the chills (music gives you goosebumps) might have a special brain (enhanced ability to experience intense emotions)

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graO8 TIL that in 1929, American Paul Galvin did not invent the car radio, but instead realized and eventually capitalized on the viability of the emerging trend. Along with his brother Joseph and William Lear, he made the car radio as important to driving as the steering wheel.
kXk4 TIL that the Tarantula Nebula, a region in the Large Magellanic Cloud over 160,000 light years distant, contains the most luminous known star. The nebula’s luminosity is so great that if it were as close to Earth as the Orion Nebula, the Tarantula Nebula would cast shadows on the ground.
l7KOG TIL In 1997, during the Critérium International race, a horse jumped over a fence to join the peloton, it passed them and left the race just 20 km away from the finish line
LkvxZ TIL a woman chugged a $200 of Remy Martin XO in an attempt to beat airplane fluid allowances.
JPm4 TIL Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, the civil war general involved in the early Ku Klux Klan, had a total of 29 horses shot out from under him during the war. He himself was shot four times, and he defeated over 30 Union soldiers in hand-to-hand combat.