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TIL That horses can only breathe through their nostrils, and their anatomy prevents them from being able to breathe with their mouths

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Q4Be TIL the Man in the Iron Mask existed. He stayed in the mask for 34 years leading to much speculation about his identity and why the king of France would want his face hidden and why he was kept alive instead of executed.
KYRV9 TIL in 1967, Singapore experienced a mass panic over shrinking genitals; hundreds of men ran to hospitals convinced their penises were retracting into their bodies due to “genital retraction syndrome”
eNX5 TIL In 2011, a team at the U.S. Department of Energy hacked into a one of the most commonly used electronic voting machines and concluded in their report: “anyone with $26 in parts and an eighth-grade science education would be able to manipulate the outcome of an election.”
DQNAV TIL that Kim Walker, who played Heather Chandler in the 1989 film Heathers in which she famously asked “Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast?” died of a brain tumor in 2001.
j6emE TIL of British boxer Terry Downes who defeated the legendary “Sugar Ray” Robinson and quipped about the ageing Robinson, “I didn’t beat Sugar Ray, I beat his ghost.”