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TIL A doctor was given an award for discovering a new cure for hiccups: digital rectal massage.

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rNkg1 TIL About solar prominences, massive plasma structures on the surface of the sun that may persists for days or even weeks.
E1p7V TIL in the US, an egg sold as “large” must weigh at least 2 ounces.
YpeGZ TIL each year U of Chicago students embark on a scavenger hunt. The 1999 list included a French Canadian, Fisher Price Baby's First Flamethrower, 5 Mensa membership cards and a nuclear reactor. Justin Kasper and Fred Niell built a plutonium-producing reactor in a single day to get 2nd place
GAAON TIL: William H. H. Murray's 1869 book "Adventures in the Wilderness; or, Camp Life in the Adirondacks" was so popular that in a matter of months it caused a "Murray Rush"---where thousands of hunters, fishers, and campers from NY and Boston went to Adirondacks and spurred modern American camping.
8aBm8 TIL of Centralia, Pennsylvania a coal mining town in which its coal mine has been on fire since 1962 and still burns to this day.