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TIL about the tensor tympani muscle: a muscle within the middle ear that some people can voluntarily contract to produce a "rumbling" noise that only they can hear.

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8a1WL TIL that the Japanese translator of the Salman Rushdie book, The Satanic Verses, was killed and the Italian Translator was wounded in separate attacks as part of the 'Fatwa' issued by Iran.
6LKW TIL in 1963 a series of tests proved that the Hercules C-130 transport aircraft could land on and take off from the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal.
PYDOL TIL that Galileo's middle finger from his right hand is on display at the Museo Galileo in Florence. Three of his fingers and a tooth were removed during his reburial in 1737.
oBb87 TIL the family-owned Roman Candy Company in New Orleans began selling its gourmet taffy in 1915 at 5 cents a stick and it stayed at that price until 1970. The mule-drawn original wagon can still be seen rolling through the streets of New Orleans and surrounding areas on an almost daily basis.
VBJ5p TIL there is 1 building, 1 ship and over 50 organisms named after David Attenborough, including a grasshopper, a Jelly and a Dinosaur