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Today I learned that Early Doctors Diagnosed Disease by Looking at Urine

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0wD9M TIL about Photic Sneezing, which is caused by looking at bright lights, rather than by irritants in the nasal passage. Only around 18-35% of people have them and it’s a genetic condition. It’s also known as ACHOO Syndrome.
JyEl TIL that when researchers offered kids broccoli or a chocolate bar, four out of five picked the chocolate but when an Elmo sticker was placed on the broccoli, fifty percent chose the broccoli.
wLdBM TIL scientists have found a woman who sees 99 million more colors than others. That woman is a tetrachromat which means she has 4 coloured cones in here eyes instead of 3 like the others.
5rb8 TIL the Navajo extras in a 1964 classic John Ford western said crazy and ribald things on film in serious scenes because no one on set knew their language, including comments on other characters’ penis size and more.
e0LBn TIL of Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, Icelandic explorer, who sailed to America around 1000ad. She was the first European to give birth there. She also sailed across North Atlantic eight times between Greenland, Iceland and Norway. Later in her life she made a pilgrimage to Rome and back.