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TIL Many migraine sufferers experience after effects such as lack of energy and mental fog, which is called the “postdrome”.

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D1BEv TIL there was a spin-off of Doctor Who called Torchwood, which is also an anagram of "Doctor Who".
99oB TIL: Taking pi to 39 digits allows us to measure the circumference of the observable universe to within the width of a single hydrogen atom.
6EZDY TIL that in 1985, 45 legendary musicians dropped what they were doing, flew to Los Angeles, and pulled an all-nighter to record: “We Are The World”. The song was only written the day before it was recorded, but it sold 20 million copies and won three Grammys.
N7LME TIL that when an amateur historian found the bodies of the Romanov family in 1979 it was kept hidden until the fall of the Soviet Union.
emJ5 TIL in 1807 the British Navy set up the “Preventative Squadron”. A growing unit of ships tasked with chasing down slave ships off the coast of Africa and freeing the slaves.