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TIL that psychological stress can cause coughing

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e0ljL TIL: Back in the day of the first iPods the shuffle algorithm was overcomplicated so the audience complained about some songs being repeated more than others so Steve Jobs made an adjustment and simply said “we’re making it less random to make it feel more random”
N7BRb TIL in 2013 a piece of landing gear from one of the 9/11 flights was found wedged between two buildings in NYC.
dvWQ TIL immunization efforts have reduced polio cases by >99%. Pakistan accounts for 86% of the current cases
9wVQp TIL that from 1991-1996, a man named Ted Woolsey was responsible for translating Square’s Super NES games into English. Working with many constraints, Woolsey often had to make script changes, such as translating “Damn it!” as “Son of a submariner!”. These are now known as “Woolseyisms” by fans.
ep9mn TIL that out of the roughly 40 countries that have used the RPG-7 rocket launcher, Lithuania is the only one that has stopped using it