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TIL a sensation known as Poo-Phoria takes place when a large bowel movement stimulates the vagus nerve. Excessive stimulation of the vagus nerve has even been known to make people pass out during a bowel movement.

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4kN56 TIL of Nihamanchi, a beer made from cassava and consumed by Indigenous peoples throughout the Amazon region. Its process involves chewing the cassava tubers, spitting them out into large jars and letting it ferment with the saliva. Its taste is described as like a "alcoholic buttermilk".
woK6W TIL there are more american robins in the US than there are people.
xVbMk TIL that 4 states ban billboards. That's Hawaii, Vermont, Maine, and Alaska.
45E6 TIL Jon Hamm was arrested in college for brutally hazing another student. The hazing included beating the student, dragging his genitals with a hammer and setting his clothes on fire
neg8b TIL The first published story of an abduction by extraterrestrials dates back to Stockton, California in 1896. A man claimed he and a friend encountered an attempted kidnapping by three tall, thin beings, 7 feet tall and nude, with small delicate hands and hairless except for a soft downy fur