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TIL When a cough lasts longer than six to eight weeks, it's considered a chronic cough. How postnasal drips causes a chronic cough is still not clearly understood

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jevn TIL: Under the Third Reich, Aryan mothers who devoted their lives to having children were awarded the Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter (Mother’s Cross) and were respected civil servants who were saluted on the streets by Hitler’s Youth.
y7pw TIL that Neil deGrasse Tyson was extremely athletic in high school, the captain of his wrestling team, and even invented a physics based wrestling move.
oB6NW TIL similar to the Komodo Dragon, a Human's bite can cause permanent bone and tissue damage by way of infection due to the bacteria that lives in the mouth
OoMZL TIL about a dialect quiz that attempts to figure out where you grew up in the United States. It asks 25 multiple choices questions asking things like “what do you call a sweetened carbonated beverage?”. It then will try to triangulate where you are from.
woyYW TIL about Jess Larochelle, a Canadian war hero. Despite sustaining severe injuries, including a concussion, broken back, neck, detached retina, and blown eardrum, confronted and forced the retreat of 40 Taliban fighters. There is a campaign to upgrade his war decoration to a Victoria Cross.