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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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XEb5X TIL Christopher Nolan will reportedly receive 20 percent of Tenet‘s first dollar gross, meaning he gets a percentage of the box office revenue beginning with the film’s release rather than the profit.
5YkkP Today I learned that the worst elevator accident occurred when a locomotive fell down a mineshaft and landed on an elevator
4aZ6 TIL that Scientologists tried to hijack the Hugo Awards in 1987, filling the World Science Fiction Convention with cultists in order to promote L. Ron Hubbard’s science fiction novel
WKno TIL of David Hahn, who at 17 years old attempted to build a nuclear reactor in his backyard, which at one point was emitting over 1000 times normal background radiation.
D1Qeg TIL that there was a Peanuts/Spider-Man Crossover comic strip, in which, Spider-Man helps Charlie Brown kick the football by trapping Lucy in a web.