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TIL of "Palilalia," a condition in which some people repeat their own words to themselves, usually although not always under their breath.

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PYJ6O TIL in early 1900, It was common to give dentures as a wedding gift in Britain, Denmark and some parts of Canada, as it was expected that all teeth would eventually be lost, and the gift was thought to help ease the cost of replacement of teeth.
weg8 TIL that the Guinness record holder for the largest meal in the world is a traditional Bedouin wedding dish: a whole camel, stuffed with a whole lamb, stuffed with chickens, stuffed with fish, stuffed with eggs.
N7weE TIL the Reagan Administration laughed about the AIDS epidemic during three separate press conferences
yQxdV TIL that Yellow River (Huang He) in China had shifted its course in 1855 when the river breaches its northern levees, causing the river mouth to be shifted hundreds of kilometres, from Yellow Sea south of Shandong Peninsula, to Bohai Sea, north of Shandong Peninsula.
4Xjlg TIL the earliest known version of the Coca-Cola recipe was developed out of a cocktail of morphine and toxins being used by a wounded former Confederate soldier who had become addicted to painkillers