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TIL about precordial catch syndrome, which is when you get an intense sharp pain in your chest, worse when breathing in. It’s not a heart attack.

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okmR TIL NASA’s first trip into space was made possible by Katherine Johnson, an African American scientist who was in charge of calculating the rocket’s flight trajectory. Her work was so trusted that, even after NASA had switched to computers, they would call on her to check for any mistakes.
BgxrL TIL The color of your bread tie indicates the day on which the bread was baked
YpYo7 TIL North Korea could have a lot of oil. NK reportedly has seven underexplored geological basins, with three basins said to have “proven working petroleum systems"
jk1Q TIL that John Cusack once asked his agent to present him with the “craziest, most unproduceable script you can find.” His agent presented “Being John Malkovich”. Impressed with the script, Cusack auditioned and won a role in the film
OGnwe TIL That in 1840s Australia, there was a rumor about a European women held against her will by the Kurnai people. For two years, the native people of the area were hunted, with a boy being captured. After arranging a meeting, the natives arrived with a statue; the figurehead from the ship, Britannia