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TIL that cluster headaches are called “suicide headaches,” because as one of the most painful conditions known to medical science, sufferers want to kill themselves during attacks.

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PBGJ TIL: That there is so much space debris in earth’s atmosphere that in future it may just become dangerous to leave earth and we may get trapped in our own garbage.
4k1LJ TIL the Ancient Greek ruler of Miletus, Histiaeus sent a message by shaving the head of his most trusted servant, "marking" the message on his scalp, then sending him once his hair had regrown, with the instruction, "When thou art come to Miletus, bid Aristagoras shave thy head, and look thereon."
9wBDr TIL the writer of the hymn Lord of the Dance was written by a man who kept a statue of the Hindu god Shiva on his desk.
oRBr TIL that the pied piper was a legend used to explain the actual disappearance of hundreds of children.
awbVL TIL the last time there were two named storm systems in the Gulf of Mexico at the same time was June 18, 1959