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TIL a third of the human population sneezes when they look at the sun

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8jM4 TIL Burger King gives out gold cards to celebrities, giving them a limitless supply of food at Burger King
ymp8 TIL when Australian driver Alan Jones won the 1977 Austrian Formula 1 Grand Prix, the race organisers didn’t have a copy of his national anthem to play at the podium ceremony (unaware that it was God Save The Queen). Instead, a drunk person played “Happy Birthday” on a trumpet.
lA0N TIL there are 558,000 USA WWII veterans still alive today.
ANgkn TIL Darwin suffered a curious denial about his mother’s death, once writing in a condolence letter “never in my life having lost one near relation” and during a Scrabble-like game, when another player added ‘M’ to ‘OTHER’, he stared long at the board then cried: ‘There's no such word as M-OTHER!’.
5YYM9 TIL Japanese police use futons, not guns. They roll up criminals like a burrito and carry them to the station to calm them down.