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TIL a possible cure for the hiccups is digital rectal massage

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p8MBG TIL that there is now unrefutable evidence that confirms the validity of the previously-labeled "absurd" theory that humans existed in the Americas before the end of the last ice age, further suggesting that a cataclysmic event could have wiped out a previously unknown civilization
OGe7a TIL Poland's national anthem mentions Napoleon Bonaparte, praising him as "he who has shown us ways to victory"
RLn7 TIL In 2005, after a controversial eminent domain law was passed, allowing corporations to seize private land for their own use, an entrepreneur cited the new law in an attempt to confiscate the home of the judge who ruled in favor of it, generating wide support.
GYd4g TIL that 1816 was a year without summer. Average global temperatures fell by around 1°C after Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, covering the skies around the world in volcanic ash.
ep0pk TIL The smallest park in the world called Mill Ends Creek is a circle in a street 2 feet across located in Portland, Oregon.