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TIL that in rare instances, the sound of tinnitus is detectable by someone other than the patient by using a stethoscope, in which case it is known as "objective tinnitus."

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4XYeJ TIL in the 1920’s Canada had plans to invade the US (and vice versa).
j6R4a TIL that after the Portuguese defeat in the Siege of Tangier (1437, against Morocco), Prince Ferdinand was held hostage until Portugal returned the city of Ceuta to Morocco. The Portuguese King never did that, despite his brother's pleas, and Ferdinand died in captivity, in 1443.
1pbW TIL Occam’s razor is not “the simplest answer is usually correct”, it’s “the answer that requires the fewest assumptions is usually correct”.
yyEM TIL that the first Canadian casualties of the Afghanistan war were from an American pilot bombing a training exercise.
GAkAG TIL: The sportscaster Al Michaels was traded by Disney to NBC for Oswald the Lucky Rabbit