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TIL a 35-Year-Old Man Breaks Hardest Bone in the Human Body While Coughing

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1aVyr TIL Michael Humphreys, the man who played the role of the young Forrest Gump, joined the US Army in 2004 and has completed an 18-month deployment in Iraq. While in the Army, he was given the nickname "Gump" by his fellow soldiers.
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vv5B TIL in an experiment every one of 54 undergraduates in wine making and tasting thought they were tasting a red wine while it was actually a dyed white wine. Furthermore when comparing identical wine of different prices experts raved about the expensive wine while panning the cheap wine
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