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TIL Tesla wouldn’t speak to women who wore pearl jewelry.

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wPJ7 TIL France used to hold impotence trials, where wives could sue their husbands if he had ED. The husband would have to prove that he could get hard in court. If he couldn’t, his appeal would be a Trial by Congress, where the couple would have sex to prove the husband could fulfill his marital duties
DQVne TIL that inhalation and exhalation are byproducts of the diaphragm’s movement, not an active process of the lungs. The diaphragm controls airflow by contracting and relaxing.
1anvD TIL that just outside Albuquerque you can drive East on Route 66 and hit a rumble strip that plays "America The Beautiful" if you drive the speed limit, turning the wheels of your car into a phonograph
j6ryQ TIL Archduke Franz Ferdinand killed almost 300,000 animals | Ferdinand was an avid hunter and tallied his kills in a massive journal. The total amounted to 272,511
N75LM TIL there was much pressure from Columbia Pictures for the "Men in Black" music video to help the movie succeed. With just weeks before the film’s release, Will Smith devised a last minute idea to do a dance-off with a CGI alien. Smith spent late nights learning the steps and they shot it in 4 days.