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TIL of “Phantom Vibration Syndrome” where a person perceives a vibration from their device when, in fact, it’s not doing so and may not even be in the vicinity.

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b6Pe4 TIL in 1902, one day after being jailed for a fight, a man named Ludger Sylbaris survived for four days while the pyroclastic flow from Mt. Pelée killed 30,000. His jail cell was a former ammunition storehouse with thick walls and no windows apart from one ventilation shaft.
gMGGA TIL Hall of Fame boxer Julio Cesar Chavez grew up with 10 brothers and sisters in an abandoned railroad car in Culiacan. When he gained fame as a professional fighter, Chavez would fight in exhibitions to raise money for the poor in Mexico, often giving out of his own pocket.
E150w TIL the Germans had a master plan for the Mediterranean Sea which included closing the Gibraltar Straight to increase land for settlement
R7WOj TIL: When the Nazis and the Vichy government began arresting and deporting the Jews, Si Kaddour Benghabrit Imam of Grand Mosque de Paris made it a sanctuary for endangered Jews. By offering them shelter; and giving them fake identity certificates, to prove they were Muslims, not Jews.
Kdka TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger only spoke 74 words in The Terminator.