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TIL It's impossible to sneeze while you're dreaming.

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kvdE TIL that in the old Jameson Whiskey distillery in Dublin, cats were so vital in keeping rats away from the barely warehouse, that they were each allocated their own milk allowance from petty cash.
R7VW8 TIL The meeting of presidents President Taft and Díaz in Mexico in 1909 was the first between a president of the United States and a president of Mexico. Because both presidents were bilingual there was no need for interpreters. No one else attended the meeting where they spent 20 minutes alone
MMZa TIL the saying “She sells seashells on/by the seashore” comes from Mary Anning, a poor Paleontologist who was forced to sell her fossils to support her family.
AkdB TIL the Nazis also made a film called “Titanic”. It was an anti-British propaganda piece about the famous shipwreck. The RAF bombed the theater it was to have premiered in and later sunk the ship it was filmed on, resulting 3x the deaths as the Titanic.
5N7p TIL that Patrick Stewart’s son, Daniel, plays Picard’s son in The Inner Light, in his alternative life on Kataan.