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TIL that brain freeze is a not-very serious condition that is simply your body’s reaction to eating too-cold foods. Its scientific name is "phenopalatine ganglioneuralgia"

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9Pkp TIL there is a species of deer with fangs.
GAljg TIL that the last of the kidnappers convicted of the 1976 Chowchilla bus kidnapping (in which 3 kidnappers hijacked a school bus with 26 children on board and forced them into a moving truck buried in a quarry before they escaped after 16 hours underground) was paroled in 2022.
R5r7a TIL Willow Creek, California is known as " Bigfoot Capital of the World" and has a Bigfoot Museum housing 30 plaster cast footprints, including one measuring 16 inches. It is close to Bluff Creek, where the famous Patterson Gimlin Bigfoot footage was filmed
wR7E TIL the very first barcode scanned was for a pack of Juicy Fruit in Troy, Ohio on June 26, 1974. The pack of gum and its receipt are now on display at the Smithsonian Institute.
VM9Bk TIL the only country that prohibits killing horses for consumption is the US