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TIL THAT Thomas Edison is responsible for the very first on-screen kiss in cinema.

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BrQOd TIL that the temporary deafness we experience when yawning is caused by the activation of muscles in the ear that function to dampen oscillations in the ear caused by loud sounds and by the difference in the pressure between the two sides of the eardrums hindering the its ability to freely vibrate.
BZLr TIL that newgrounds.com is one of the oldest websites still around. It was founded in 1991.
R5kQ8 TIL: Chinese eat more than 90% of the crawfish consumed globally
PQdg TIL Dua Khalil’s body was exhumed after she was stoned to death in an honor killing and sent to a forensic lab “so that tests could be performed to see whether she had died a virgin”.
P1jkE TIL the Capitol of the Omani empire was moved from Oman (Muscat, Arabian peninsula) to Zanzibar (Africa) in 1840