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Why is it that at the very moment that you should be the most relaxed, you suddenly get seized with the feeling of falling through the air? It's not uncommon. About 70 percent of people regularly face this experience, which is technically known as a hypnic jerk.

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x6vJo TIL of the Holy Prepuce, a series of relics claiming to be Jesus's foreskin. At certain points in history, as many as 18 different supposed holy foreskins existed
yREw TIL when composer Frédéric Chopin was on his death bed he asked that when he died his body be cut open and the heart removed to be buried in his homeland of Poland. Upon his death, his sister smuggled the heart out of France, delivering it to the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw.
4Oo6 TIL Barbera and Hanna experimented with Hillbillies, Romans, Pilgrims, and Indians before settling on the Stone Age for their cartoon “The Flagstones”, which later became “The Flintstones”.
vN0x TIL That for years the German military had a parge single shot flamethrower pistol called the “Handflammpatrone”. It was capable of firing a flaming grenade 90 meters, laying a 15 meter wide flame over a 50 meter long area along the way.
p8Mlb TIL musician Gram Parsons wanted his body cremated and scattered at Joshua Tree, but his family arranged for him to be buried in Louisiana for financial reasons. His friends, drunk and assisted by an unwitting police officer, stole his body from the airport and burned the casket themselves.