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

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yQB5e TIL In 1915, Kulbir Thapa was the first Nepalese Gurkha to receive the Victoria Cross. Thapa carried two wounded Gurkhas through No-Man’s-Land despite being wounded himself. When he went back a third time, German soldiers stopped firing and began clapping, allowing him to walk back to his own line.
VGKG TIL that the name ‘Idaho’ isn’t actually based off of anything, it was basically just made up by a man named George M. Willing
JYPPB TIL that a dog named Seamus was once a member of Pink Floyd.
M7AR0 TIL that every 50 years, the flowering of a species of bamboo in Northeast India and Northwest Myanmar causes a ''flood'' of black rats that feed on the nutritious bamboo seeds and widespread famine. The last bloom was in 2006.
kBXE TIL your electronic devices can be seized within 100 miles of the U.S border at any time for no reason.