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TIL Honeymoon Rhinitis is a condition that causes runny nose and nasal congestion during arousal and sex

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oBb07 TIL the wreckage of the train and bus from the hit movie The Fugitive were left in place in North Carolina at the request of the Smoky Mountain Railway, which sees them as a tourist attraction.
b9x5p TIL in Victorian times, the cheapest form of accommodation available was a “penny hang”. You could literally pay a penny to sleep over a ROPE. This was commonly used by drunk sailors who had spent all of their money and is the origin of the term “hangover“.
grDd4 TIL that of the 105 original Jamestown colonists, only 1 is believed to have documented living descendants in the United States; Robert Beheathland
R7J14 TIL: American cheeses have that distinctive orange color because producers dye it with a natural food additive, Annatto. The color was once considered to indicate higher quality cow diet and superior quality cheese.
LkOYv TIL that only female honey bees sting, and that males cannot; the drone's stinger has been replaced with a sex organ.