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Today I learned that if you use nasal sprays for more than three days, you experience a rebound affect, which is something somewhat like an addiction, in that you are no longer able to breathe normally without it

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dop9 TIL The Tomb of the Unknowns has been continuously guarded without interruption since 1937. There are wear marks in the marble from the sentinels footsteps
D11PY TIL that a landslide from Hawaii's Big Island could generate a tsunami estimated to be up to a kilometer in height, having generated one half a km in height 120,000 years ago
4lD6 TIL that Tul Bahadur Pun was a Gurkha who won the Victoria Cross, Britain’s highest award for Valor in combat in WWII, and was denied a visa to live there because he ‘failed to demonstrate strong ties to the UK.’
woMX6 TIL that astronaut John Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich onto the Gemini 3 space mission in 1965. When he took a bite, crumbs started floating around the cabin, causing concern about damaging equipment.
gMglX TIL about the Nibiru Cataclysm, a popular conspiracy theory among doomsday groups that the Earth would be hit by a giant asteroid.