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TIL eating boogers is good for your immune system and teeth.

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5JyQ TIL the actor who plays the main sidekick of Dr Evil Random Task in Austin Powers is currently serving a life sentence for gang rape and torture
pYrdb TIL that the worlds fastest KO in boxing happened just 4 seconds after the match started…
Wkv74 TIL of the "Tumi" scalpel, believed to be the oldest surgical instrument to exist (8000 BC). It was used for trepanation, the art of drilling a hole into the skull. By opening the skull, tribes believed that it would allow the demons that caused headaches, melancholy or epilepsy to escape the body.
xVxwB TIL that Louis Armstrong, an influential jazz figure, didn't receive formal musical training until he was arrested for firing a pistol at age 11. In there, the music teacher, Peter Davis, taught him how to play the bugle and cornet. In retrospect, Louis said that was when "me and music got married."
69N07 TIL that the "Founder of Modern Egypt" was actually an Albanian by the name of Mohammad Ali, and he ruled over Egypt, Sudan, The Levant, Mecca, and Medina at the peak of his power within the Ottoman Empire.