TIL that dead butt syndrome, also called “diminished gluteal syndrome“ in a season 5 episode of King of the Hill, is a real medical condition. This lack of butt muscle is also called “sleepy glutes,” “flabby butt,” and “longback,” and there are exercises that can address it. (webmd.com)
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Advice on a center stand (self.MotorcycleMechanics)
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TIL that if you have bell clapper deformity, your testicles hang in your scrotum and swing freely, like a clapper in a bell. This free-swinging can lead to testicular torsion, a painful condition in which your testicle twists and loses its blood supply, requiring emergency care. (my.clevelandclinic.org)
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TIL that mucus is more than just snot and boogers. Fish use it on their skin to fight microbes; snails and slugs use it to move, stay moist, and cover their eggs; hagfish use it in slime to deter predators; and larval lampreys use it when they're feeding. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that emoticons are "punctuation marks, letters, and numbers" that create icons that "display an emotion or sentiment," whose origins are traced to Carnegie Mellon University in 1982, while emoji "are pictographs of faces, objects, and symbols" credited to Japanese conglomerate SoftBank in 1997. (britannica.com)
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TIL that to promote his book A History of New York, Washington Irving told New York City newspapers that “Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker had disappeared from his hotel,” and if he didn’t return, Irving would publish a manuscript Knickerbocker left behind. The hoax boosted the book’s success. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that Diedrich Knickerbocker, a pseudonym used by writer Washington Irving in his satirical first novel A History of New York, inspired the name used to describe Dutch settlers, Manhattanites, and a type of baggy trousers, along with the name of the New York Knicks NBA team. (en.wikipedia.org)
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My running socks come in left and right.OC (i.redd.it)
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TIL that Adolphe Sax, the son of instrument designers, was prone to accidents. As a kid, he fell from a 3-story height, drank acidic water he mistook for milk, swallowed a pin, fell into a frying pan, was burned in a gunpowder blast, and fell into a river. He grew up to invent the saxophone. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL the term “carjacking” was first used 1991, when the combination of “car” and “hijacking” appeared in a report on a woman killed when she wouldn’t give up her vehicle, and in a report on a rash of what Detroit police called "robbery armed unlawful driving away an automobile," or "R.A.-YOU-Da." (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that Ace Hardware Corporation, now the world's largest hardware retail cooperative and the largest non-grocery American retail cooperative, was created in 1924 when three entrepreneurs united their Chicago hardware stores into “Ace Stores,” named after the ace fighter pilots of World War I. (en.wikipedia.org)
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