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TIL the reason the "funny bone" feels different is because it is pain inflicted directly onto a nerve (pinching it into a nearby bone), in contrast to when nerves react to nearby trauma (like banging your toe)

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oBwao TIL Ultra-high-temperature pasteurized milk packaged in a sterile container, if not opened, has a typical unrefrigerated shelf life of six to nine months.
PYXEg TIL that the last weekend of Saturday morning cartoons in America was aired on October 4th, 2014. The CW aired its last segment of "The Vortexx" and replaced it with a 5-hour block of educational programming called "One Magnificent Morning"
wLeXE TIL Newt Gingrich blamed his infidelity with his very sick wives (one with cancer, one with MS) on his love for America.
g10b TIL: An 80s pop song has been online since 2002 (YouTube since 2007) that no one has been able to identify despite extensive research.
VBd1G TIL Charles Luckman, an architect who designed Madison Square Garden, decided to be an architect when he was working at a newsstand as a kid and asked one woman passing by what the "pretty lights" overhead were and who placed them there. She answered it was a chandelier and that an architect decides