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TIL Stroking A Mans Inner Thigh Will Cause His Testicals To Move The Other Way (Cremasteric Reflex) To Protect Themselves

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VBJYB TIL that there is a difference between a heart attack and a cardiac arrest! And if you attempt to use a defibrillator on a heart attack victim, you may actually kill them!
x6Plg TIL about Jay Traver, a University of Massachusetts entomologist who unwittingly documented her own case of delusional parasitosis.
ADvng TIL Nigeria started a famine in 1968 that would kill 2-3 million people, prompting one of the largest humanitarian crises of all time. To which Nigeria responded "If the children must die first, then that is too bad, just too bad."
N7EB6 TIL that houses were blown up or demolished during the Great Fire of London in 1666 in an effort to contain and stop the fires.
LQj7d TIL that Jeffrey Hudson, a court dwarf of the English Queen Henrietta Maria, shot a man in a duel, after which he went into exile, was captured by Barbary pirates, spent 25 years enslaved in North Africa during which he grew 25 inches, which he attributed to the hard conditions.