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TIL That picking your nose and eating your boogers is good for your immune system

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e1aE TIL in March 6, 2010 a blind hiker set on the Appalachian trail with a goal to inspire other visually impaired people. Seven months later, he finished hiking the 1,700 miles using only a cellphone, GPS open-source software, and hearing to locate camps, trailheads, and water sites.
WkWDd TIL Anastasia, daughter of the last Tsar of Russia, supposedly escaped execution during the Russian Revolution. The story inspired books and imposters. Scientific analysis (incl. DNA analysis) now confirms she died in 1918. Remains included the imperial family and all four grand duchesses.
kOJbW TIL: When FDR died, Eleanor Roosevelt told Harry Truman that the president was dead. When he asked there was anything he could do for her, she replied, “Is there anything we can do for you? For you are the one in trouble now.”
r69d TIL: While the FBI was searching for Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner they found 8 other bodies of missing black men killed by the Klan.
VBBmB TIL that oxygen (together with iron) account for most of the mass of planet earth