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TIL that 12 year old girl Katelyn Thornley sneezed 12,000 times a day

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XELbE TIL Plato's dialogue "Timaeus" presents the shapes of the four elements. Earth would be a cube, air an octahedron, of water an icosahedron, and of fire a tetrahedron. The dodecahedron represents the shape of the universe
OG8jR TIL That North American Aviation took the P-51 from concept to working prototype in only 102 days.
grOwX TIL Harald Hardrada, a claimant to the English throne, fought as a berserker in the Battle of Stamford Bridge
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