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TIL a University of Georgia graduate founded the school's eventual rival, Georgia Tech

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meBo TIL Horror movie soundtracks sometimes include infrasound, which is sound below the range of human hearing. Even though we can’t hear it we can still feel it and infrasound has been shown to induce anxiety, heart palpitations, and shivering.
Bgb5e TIL about Saint Guinefort, a legendary 13th-century French greyhound that received local veneration as a folk saint. Despite repeated prohibitions by the Catholic Church, the cult of this dog saint persisted for several centuries, with the last known visit to the Saint occurring in the 1940s
B0Zr TIL The word “electrocute” is a combination of the words electro and execute, meaning you were killed by electricity. So if you don’t die, you were not electrocuted, you were shocked.
KOeRE TIL that pro wrestler Brutus Beefcake caused an Anthrax scare by leaving a bag of cocaine in the Boston Subway back in 2004
Yp9dW TIL In the movie Twister, the Dorothy unit shown in the film was not complete science fiction but based on NOAA's real TOTO unit, and the film props are now displayed with the real device at the National Weather Center.