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TIL Dr. Francis M. Fesmire won the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering how to cure the hiccups with rectal massage.

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Oojo1 TIL that on the Box Set from the Cocteau Twins was a bonus disc.
4XjVX TIL of the $23 million dollar toilets designed by NASA for deep space missions. With odor control being a serious issue, NASA pays certified sniffers to smell the toilets after they've been used to evaluate odor-control measures. The lead engineer calls them the "unsung heroes of the space program".
WkJQ8 TIL there are contact binary star systems where the stars orbit so close together they bulge into one peanut shaped star. The stars can even share matter back and forth by absorbing each other's planetary nebulae.
Gg15 TIL France, Spain and the Dutch Republic all secretly provided supplies, ammunition and weapons to the American revolutionaries against the British starting early in 1776.
1a41X TIL the creators of Fever Pitch had to rewrite the ending - they expected the Red Sox to lose in the playoffs, and wrote the original script accordignly, but the Boston team surprised them by winning the World Series.