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TIL sharks possess a sensory organ that allows them to feel the electrical signals generated by muscle contractions in prey… Or your beating heart

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yPL8 TIL as recently as the 1700’s a man could use a woman’s pregnancy as evidence he did NOT rape her due to the belief one can only get pregnant if they enjoy the sex
LQE4P TIL that, to prey on sharks more easily, orcas (killer whales) use their powerful jaws and speed to flip sharks upside down, which induces tonic immobility in the shark (a state of paralysis).
PYg1L TIL Gandhi, the famously non-violent leader of the Indian independence movement, sent letters to Hitler pleading with him to avoid war noting that he himself "shunned the method of war not without considerable success"
dygZ TIL in 1918, after a white man was killed by a black man, a white mob went on a week-long riot and killed at least 13 people, including an African-American woman. She was burned alive, and her unborn baby was cut from her stomach and crushed because she spoke out against her husband’s murder.
wLvrE TIL Johnny cash got the tempo to "I Walk the Line" from his heartbeat when he wrote the song. His heart beat was pretty fast that day, he felt his pulse and put the music on beat with it.