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TIL you can cure hiccups by having an orgasm

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DQGBY TIL a 1970's startup tried to design a flying car by attaching Cessna wings to a Ford Pinto. After a test pilot was forced to land early, a second test flight was conducted on Sept 11, 1973, by the startup's two founders themselves, both of whom were killed in the fiery crash that followed.
e07gn TIL that the "Thirty pieces of silver" paid to Judas Iscariot to betray Jesus Christ would be worth approximately $200 (USD) today.
b9D6j TIL researchers have found that the ‘spring forward’ to daylight savings time (i.e. putting your clocks forward an hour) causes a 6% increase in fatal car accidents in the US during the workweek following the adjustment, and results in about 28 additional deaths each year.
epB0g TIL in 2004, Dutch Scientists left a 'hamster wheel' in the wild, and all types of forest animals, including frogs and slugs, used it throughout the year
5YPr TIL that Comedy Central only agreed to air the word “shit” uncensored in the South Park episode “It Hits the Fan” (the first South Park to do so) if the word was used an absurdly high number of times. The episode had 200 total shits- 162 spoken, 38 written.