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TIL that coughing while cleaning inside your ears is not something that everyone else experiences and is actually an uncommon reaction called Arnold’s Nerve Reflex

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PwKG TIL that about half of men ejaculate in under two minutes. And the average male expects to have intercourse for 18 minutes.
6m8Z TIL that “Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band” reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in 1977 and is the biggest-selling instrumental single of all time.
RXy6 TIL that China’s army holds annual training exercises against a ‘Blue Force’ equipped to resemble a NATO adversary like the United States. The Blue Force nearly always wins; in 2014, only one visiting brigade was able to defeat it at the cost of 50% casualties.
n8Od TIL of Audie Murphy, the most decorated American soldier in the entire Second World War. In 1942 he falsified his age to 18 to join the Army and until 1945 he participated in battles on Sicily, at Salerno, Anzio and Rome, and also in southern France and the Alsace region.
yVjyw TIL that Reynolds, the company that makes Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil, once built and operated a deep sea submersible. Called the Aluminaut, it was the world's first aluminum submarine.