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TIL PCP (phencyclidine) was discovered by Parke-Davis and Company's laboratories in Detroit

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ADQox TIL: The tensor tympani muscle causes the loud rumbling noise you hear when you close your eyes very tightly.
P1a8w TIL that the first Special Emmy Award ever given out went to Louis McManus for designing the Emmy itself - and he didn't even get the statue, but rather a plaque.
Wkn0X TIL that the iconic "DUN DUN DUN-DUN DUN DUN" hook in the Mission Impossible theme song was inspired by the Morse code sound for the movie's initials "MI" which is --.. or "dash-dash, dot-dot".
R5d8w TIL Mozart composed a song called "Lick Me In The A**" - and by extension, we're much more prudish now about bodily humour than we were in the past.
8JOP TIL President Carter met with North Korea’s Kim Il Sung on a boat trip for five hours in 1994. Kim agreed with everything Carter proposed on resolving political differences and said OK to a summit meeting with the President of South Korea which never happened as Kim died that same month