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TIL that 2 years ago a man created an actual cure for hiccups. Tried it today and mind = Blown!

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0d885 TIL Al Cowlings, the man who drove the famous white Bronco in the O.J. Simpson police chase, opened a chatline during the trial for the public to ask him questions about anything except the murders and his friend O.J.'s trial.
WkpBo TIL Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev gifted US President John F Kennedy a dog called Pushinka during the cold war. She later on had puppies; which Kennedy referred to as "the pupniks".
LkoBQ TIL the story of Isaac Newton watching an apple fall out of a tree often misses an important detail, it was a windy day. The wind blew the apple at an angle as it fell. This caused Newton to wonder if an object could fall at such an angle that it never hits the ground, aka an orbit.
BreBK Today I learned all Navel Oranges are genetically identical, the trees originally grafted in the 1800's from one mutant branch on a tree in a monastery in Brazil. The mutation that made it seedless just happened to cause a smaller conjoined twin to grow on one end, the "navel".
MeDeK TIL: In 1911, Canadian prospector William Henry Wright and his brother-in-law were hunting rabbits when they stumbled upon a quartz outcrop that eventually yielded 13.5 million ounces of gold.