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TIL that the stethoscope was invented when a doctor felt uncomfortable placing his head on a woman's chest.

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6EQeQ Matter tells space how to curve, and curved space tells matter how to move. That's the basic principle behind Einstein's General Relativity, which linked, for the first time, the phenomenon of gravity with that of spacetime and relativity. Place a mass down anywhere in the Universe, and the space around it will curve in response. But if you take that mass away, or move it elsewhere, what causes the spacetime to "snap back" to its unbent position?
4k0EJ TIL of Alex Stepney, an English soccer goalkeeper so got so angry at his own team-mates, he literally dislocated his jaw screaming at them.
nPE9 TIL the reason why the ship commanding a fleet is called a flagship comes from the Age of Sail. The fleet would be given orders by flags sent up on the admiral’s ship, thus making it the Flagship.
E1kbd TIL of the Pennies In A Jar parable. The parable says that if a newlywed couple puts a penny in a jar every time they make love during the first year of marriage, and removes a penny every time after that, no matter how long the marriage lasts, they say, the jar will never be empty.
mnvM TIL that a .45 caliber handgun was stolen from President William Howard Taft and was then used in several murders.