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TIL Holding in a fart can make it leak out of your mouth when exhaling

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mxJAR TIL the Przewalski's horse was long considered the last wild horse on Earth to never be domesticated at any point in history. However, a 2018 study found that they are actually descendants of domesticated horses owned by a long-extinct ancient civilization.
8aAKX TIL that Princess Diana's funeral was watched by approximately 2.5 billion people, which, in 1997, was about 43% of the entire population of Earth.
8ap0Z TIL seven new rare earth elements have been found in the small Swedish village of Ytterby. Four of the elements are named after the village, ytterbium, yttrium, terbium, and erbium, the other three are holmium, thulium, and gadolinium.
xLnD TIL: Mountain Dew was originally created to be a whiskey mixer.
DPOp TIL that Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower, after serving two terms as President of the United States, sought and received his reinstatement as a General of the Army. Ike believed that history would hardly remember his service as President, but would never forget that he commanded the D-day invasion.