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TIL shoulders are a muscle (yes don’t judge me 💀)

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nWkK9 TIL in 1838, France invaded Mexico because of the looting of a French-owned bakery in Mexico City, leading to the Pastry War which resulted in a blockade of Mexican ports until diplomatic negotiations resolved the conflict.
aP5y TIL that when bubbles are collapsed by sound waves it creates light and no one knows why. It’s called “Sonoluminescence”
BgN7L TIL that a single Bengal tiger has killed an estimated 436 people in Nepal and India in the late 19th and early 20th century.
ManA TIL that during filming of Rocky, Sylvester Stallone suffered bruised ribs and Carl Weathers a broken nose, the opposite of what their characters in the film recieved
6EXJ TIL the computer was not invented in the 1940’s. In the 1830’s Charles Babbage designed a mechanical, steam powered beast with a CPU, RAM, even a printer, that could do most of the things early electronic computers could. It was never built.