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TIL picking your nose and eating boogers is apparently good for you???

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WGGd TIL - That during the peak of Ebola news in 2014 people started to avoid Liberia airport in Costa Rica thinking that it was the country in Africa.
0wV0p TIL the oldest known bird in the world was a sulphur-crested cockatoo called Cocky Bennett, who lived to 120. He could even recall phrases such as "one feather more and I'll fly" and "one at a time, gentlemen, please".
VBO6m TIL that during the 1980 Okęcie plane disaster passengers were found to have been holding onto their seats so hard, that it led to severed muscles and tendons unrelated to the damage caused by the crash itself.
E1jvp TIL A UK study found that 1 in 6 deaths is caused by a 9–5 office lifestyle. Sitting for prolonged periods of can make you twice as likely to die prematurely
wLKDY TIL fiction writers are 10 times more likely to be bipolar, poets 40 times more likely.