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TIL: That your stomach has a esophageal sphincter and can relate to acid reflux and heartburn.

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vPLjK TIL The US Government has an entire telephone area code (710) reserved for itself, and there exists only one phone number in that entire area code.
d8Q49 TIL in 1963 Soviet Engineers Detonated a Nuclear bomb to Put Out a Gas Well Fire
QN8rE TIL that in 1971–1972 the Indonesian New Order government launched "Operasi Koteka" ("Operation Penis Gourd") to encourage the Papuan people to wear shorts and shirts because such clothes were considered more "modern" compared to their traditional Koteka, which is a penis sheath.
EgEGw TIL about the winterworm, people pay ALOT to eat the cordyceps fungus in Asia. Made famous by the recent TV drama The Last of Us, prices are as high as $18,000 per kg. Eaten for its herbal properties its known as the viagra of Tibet.
b6ebp TIL in 1982 for a film named Fitzcarraldo, director Werner Herzog had the cast drag a 320-ton steamship over a steep hill: to depict real life events. Under the threat of death, Carlos Fitzcarrald forced indigenous workers to transport a 30 ton ship over a mountain to get to another river in 1894.