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TIL If you can voluntarily control your middle ear (tensor tympani) muscles to create a rumbling noise inside your head, you are extremely rare.

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KOxla TIL Ninepin bowling (with the pins arranged in a diamond pattern) was outlawed in Connecticut and New York during the early 1800s because it was associated with heavy gambling. This led to the addition of a tenth pin (arranged in the now-common triangular pattern) to circumvent the law.
8eKdZ TIL nectar robbing occurs when a pollinator (bee, bird, etc) pokes/bites a hole in the base of a flower, bypassing the reproductive organs and inhibiting pollination
xx4B TIL bowling originated as a religious ceremony. A stone was rolled at the Kegel, which represented the Heide (heathen), and those successfully toppling it were believed to have cleansed themselves of sin.
Avmn TIL Kurt Russell was the civilian pilot who witnessed the infamous mass UFO sighting in Phoenix Arizona in 1997 (AKA the “Phoenix Lights”)
wnwJ TIL A man apprehended a drunken police officer and locked him in the back of his own vehicle.