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TIL that Hik-Connect app available in Apple App store is from a Chinese company that's currently sanctioned by the US government

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VMDJ8 TIL that the reason we get a runny nose after crying is because the leftover fluid that wasn’t shed through tears gets drained into the nose through the “lacrimal point” (that weird mysterious hole on your lower eyelid).
oDgR TIL that Christina Hendricks’ agency fired her for taking the role of Joan Holloway on Mad Men
78wyb TIL that Gilbert Gottfried's sister was an award-winning street photographer.
LBpZ TIL a homeless man was found decapitated with a severed chicken head shoved in his neck. An occult detective predicted that the Santeria cult took his head to make a brain stew, and that they would return the head in 42 days. She was taken off the case, and the head showed up 42 days later.
LNaQ TIL the US ambassador to Afghanistan was kidnapped and killed by militants pretending to be police on Valentine’s Day in 1979.