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TIL that the sharp, sudden pain in the left side if your chest that hurts more when you breathe is called “Precordial Catch”

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78eYX TIL A former Catholic priest once ran onto the track during a F1 Grand Prix and also ran onto the track during the Olympics and cost the runner a gold medal
xVLNB TIL the British king or queen has two birthdays: their real birth date and one assigned to them during the summer, to ensure better weather for the parade
gr0dA TIL that IBM was also a military contractor in WW2 and produced M1 Carbines in 1943
bam9 TIL the World Wide Web Wanderer was designed at MIT to measure the size and growth of the internet. Wanderer is considered to be the first online bot, and was launched on this day in 1993!