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TIL Charles Darwin was known for his Excessive Flatulence

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4o1a 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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69Q8J TIL that the writers on Futurama created and proved a new mathematical theorem as a plot point for a body-switching episode.
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