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TIL the Rectoanal Inhibitory Reflex, or anal sampling mechanism, tells us if a fart is more than just a fart

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lo60G TIL that before the Battle of Pratapgarh, Shivaji met with the enemy general Khan; prepared for treachery. He wore an armour under his clothes which saved him from being stabbed during a hug, to which he retaliated by disembowelling the general with Wolverine-style claws. The battle was won.
EgkBo TIL Thirty years before Newton published his Principia, Descartes published his Principia Philosophiæ which put forward a new mechanistic system of physics. However, Descartes’s system was entirely qualitative; he provided no equations of motion and his hypothesis has no validity
nZ9o TIL that when you are under stress it triggers your body’s defences.Your blood thickens to encourage blood clotting in the event of an injury.This thicker blood puts strain on your heart.That is why stress increases the risk of heart attacks
R5dN1 TIL During an ecumenical council meeting between 1414 to 1418, Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund made a Latin grammatical error by conjugating "schisma" as feminine. When a cardinal corrected him, he replied "I am king of the Romans and above grammar." He was nicknamed "Super Grammaticam" by historians.
Jd9V TIL in the Duelfer Report by the 1,400 member force by the CIA and Pentagon concluded in 2004 that Saddam Hussein had stopped all nuclear and chemical activities, as well as destroyed all stockpiles, in 1991