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TIL that the only medically proven cure for hiccups that does not require drugs or surgery is "Digital Rectal Massage"

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Me4jB TIL there once existed the Silver Republican Party, a US political party that split from the Republican Party in the 1890s over the issues of bimetallism and free silver. It disbanded in the early 1990s and most of its members joined the GOP, but some went to the Democrats.
QW66 TIL after Micheal Durant(the pilot captured during the Black Hawk Down incident) was captured, they played Hell’s Bells over loud speakers attached to helicopters to let him know they were still looking for him.
e4nL TIL that, in the early nineties, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg literally traded movie properties they were no longer interested in making. The films? Cape Fear (1991) and Schindler’s List (1993).
awrnL TIL That there is a monument in Russia dedicated to lab mice who's lives have been sacrificed to further science: The Monument to the Laboratory Mouse
xVrX0 TIL Canada has a major problem with people leaving Canada and moving to the US. This can be seen by how 2/3 of all software engineering graduates moved to the US recently.