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TIL about Exploding Head Syndrome, a rare condition where you hear a tremendously loud crash, buzz, or similar noise in your head as you are falling asleep. There is no pain associated and there is no harm caused as a result, but it can be quite unsettling.

7rkK7 TIL the Romans had a sacrificial "door to the underworld" in modern day Turkey where animals would appear to mystically drop dead. The eunuch priests that brought them there were left unscathed because they stood above the lethal cloud of carbon dioxide gas.
9Ye9p TIL that the people living in modern day Cameroon, when they heard about the turmoil in the US during the Great Depression, raised $3.77 to help the poor suffering families
LQb4Q TIL George H.W. Bush was named “Skin Man of the Year” by pork-rind manufacturers after he expressed a fondness for the snack in 1988 that led to a spike in sales
pNEG TIL the reason Morton salt has the little girl with the umbrella as their logo is because Morton discovered that adding magnesium carbonate to table salt made it pour more freely and not clump up, even in humid or rainy weather. Hence their slogan, “When it rains, it pours. ”
8aNpV TIL In November 2014, Mattel received criticism over the book I Can Be a Computer Engineer, which depicted Barbie as being inept at computers and requiring that her two male friends complete all of the necessary tasks to restore two laptops after she downloads a virus onto both of them.