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TIL “swallowing the tongue during a seizure” is actually a myth. The muscle underneath the tongue (lingual frenulum) prevents this from happening

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5Y1Kp TIL during WWII, the Nazis harvested hair from concentration camp inmates and used it to make blankets and socks for U-boat crews. A car company also allegedly used the hair from 40,000 Auschwitz inmates to make textiles. Polish historians claim to have found 1.95 tonnes of the hair-cloth.
JYD01 TIL that there is a National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, and one of their Hot Dog Etiquette tips is that you can NOT use ketchup on your hot dog after the age of 18.
96r TIL Scatman John’s song ‘Skatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop)’ is about the problems he faced due to his stutter and inspire kids with stutters to not give up
Qol9 TIL: In 1978 D.C. comics published Superman vs. Muhammad Ali.
MeVVb TIL that the Bible says farmers should leave the edges of their fields unharvested to feed the poor and foreigners