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TIL some people sneeze when they think dirty thoughts

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yG58 TIL an Auburn University graduate, James Brooks, was discovered to be illiterate after he couldn’t read court documents regarding him not paying child support.
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eAlD TIL Oskar Schindler became virtually destitute after the war and became bankrupt after trying to raise chickens in Argentina. For the rest of his life, he survived off gifts and donations from the Jews he had saved during the war.
XEx8X TIL long term radiation damages the cameras on the ISS. Also, astronauts occasionally see flashes of light as heavy ions or charged particles crash through their skull and fire off photo receptor cells in their eyes despite being closed.