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TIL there's a condition called Rhinorrhea.

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wkXM TIL the German state forensic bureau showed that portions of the Anne Frank Diary were written with a ballpoint pen. Ballpoint pens were not available before 1951.
0VJ1 TIL: In 1999 an Australian called Bill Morgan was hit by a truck and was clinically dead for 14 minutes. When he awoke he bought a scratch card and won a car worth $25,000. When asked to recreate this for the news he won the $250,000 jackpot live in air.
PYbkO TIL that blind people may detect and respond to light if it is a kind of skyblue light at 481nm. "There is more to the eye than rods and cones — the discovery of a third photoreceptor is rewriting the visual rulebook."
mx67Y TIL of the album, Everywhere at the end of time; a musical series consisting of six stages of music that simulate the effects of dementia over time. Each stage depicts various stages of symptoms of dementia as it progresses.
5YbJP TIL about Paradoxical Undressing, a rare symptom of hypothermia where the patient undresses due to vasoconstriction tricking him into thinking that he is hot.