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TIL Foreign accent syndrome is an extremely rare condition which makes someone beginner to fluent in a language after you wake up from Coma!

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x68kg TIL Texas liquor laws allow you to give away free alcoholic beverages without a permit. According to TABC, an alcoholic beverage is “free” if you make it available to any adult who enters a venue and requests it. There should be no expectation that you will receive a donation, tip, or payment.
4Xkoo TIL in 1939 Thanksgiving was moved to give merchants a longer period to sell goods before Christmas in order to increase profits and spending during this period.
daZ7 TIL India is launching its mass electronic surveillance program in 2014. It will give 9 Indian govt. agencies—incl. the tax dept—the power to access, in real-time, phone conversations, text, emails, web search data & social media activity WITHOUT the approval of the courts or parliament.
X0pNQ TIL of Sweating Sickness. A mysterious illness that has only been recorded in England between 1485 and 1551 and seemed to affect almost exclusively wealthy men in their 30’s and 40’s. Death would usually occur mere hours after the onset of symptoms. It is unknown what it was.
wL5W1 TIL a casket is rectangular and a coffin is hexagonal. The tapered ends of a coffin saves a bit of cost because it uses less material to make.