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TIL medical science has not yet discovered what causes muscle knots

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gMOKA TIL In 1906, A Congolese man called Ota Benga from a Mbuti pygmy tribe was held in a human zoo exhibition in Bronx, as a display of "earlier stage" of human evolution. In 1916, after getting out and unable to return to his homeland, he shot himself in the heart with a stolen pistol and died at 32.
6wMw TIL UPS has 18 planes positioned around the country that can take off at 30 minutes’ notice in case of logistical emergencies.
j6GNa TIL that the cute geography cone snail kills fish and then eats them by first immobilizing them with a cloud of insulin, sending them into hypoglycemic shock, and then injecting them with venom to kill them.
loK7r TIL as Lt. Dan Inouye was about to toss a grenade at a German machine gun nest, a Nazi shot his arm off with an RPG. Undaunted, Inouye pulled the live grenade from his severed hand, tossed it, put his gun in his left hand, then wiped out three machine gun nests and killed 25 Nazis on his own.
69gMJ TIL that Michael Jordan has won 626 games without ever losing more than 2 games in a row in his 15 year NBA career. Stephen Curry is the next closest player with 326 wins.