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TIL a man blew a small hole in his throat by holding his nose & closing his mouth while sneezing. He was in hospital for 2 weeks. Doctors suggest you should always let a sneeze rip

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p8aye TIL that cigarette filters change color not because they are trapping part of the cigarette smoke, but because they are designed to change color to lead consumers to think that they are trapping part of the smoke
MedRV TIL Online Trolls Actually Just Assholes All the Time, Study Finds. The internet just gives them a “megaphone to announce their opinions.”
9K7 TIL That Paul Winchell, The person that voiced the Cartoon Character ‘Tigger’ Was also the man that designed the first Artificial Heart.
YokA TIL in India, where most marriages are arranged by parents with the couples vetted on the basis of caste, complexion, horoscope, there is a Guardian Angels-style vigilante group that protects young couples who fall in love across different castes. They are called the Love Commandos.
Qgdk TIL In 1935, Sigmund Freud replied to a mother concerned about her son’s homosexuality by saying “ it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness” and “ It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too.”