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TIL some people can voluntarily equalize the pressure in their ears by ‘flexing’ open their eustachian tube.

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ayrJ TIL that the founder of Jimmy John’s is a big game trophy hunter
E1bn0 TIL the first statue of a black person in Bristol, UK was erected in 1987 and is of the playwright and poet Alfred Fagon
b6lJZ TIL that abandoned buses from the U.S.A. are being used as public transportation in The Philippines by millions of people everyday.
X07JP TIL that soft tissues, like biological cells, really can preserve in dinosaur bones. Maybe even some biomolecules like proteins!
VBNgk TIL the Amur Falcon coordinates his migration with the migration of the Globe Skimmer Dragonfly so as to feed on the wing over the Indian ocean.