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TIL that pain signals sent by an irritated diaphragm will be felt in the shoulder: the stabbing sensations near the heart that are sometimes felt after consuming a fatty meal are often confused with heart attacks but are nothing more than symptoms of indigestion.

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lo5Va TIL that Dolly Parton's family was so poor that the doctor who brought her into the world was paid with a sack of cornmeal
0wQ91 TIL about "The Forgotten 500" U.S. airmen who were shot down during bombing raids into Romania. Serbian peasants hid the airmen, at considerable risk, while the men, living on goat’s milk, had to build a runway large enough to land C-47s, without any real tools or alerting Nazis, for their rescue.
981Q TIL that as well as the North & South poles, there are Poles of Inaccessibility - places on land or in the ocean that are the most challenging to reach in the world
R7mgj TIL static sparks produced under low humidity (as in to car doors in winter) can go up to 20,000 volts! 40 V is enough to be fatal with wet skin (1st part under Production; 2nd part under Safety in link)
VMkOQ TIL that the man who created Fu Manchu, Sax Rohmer, had virtually no knowledge of Chinese culture and created the character because he asked a ouija board how to make a fortune and it spelled out CHINAMAN.