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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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6pEm TIL in 1990, a 15 year old girl testified before Congress, describing how Iraqi soldiers killed babies in a Kuwaiti hospital. This helped stir US favor for the Gulf War. The girl was later found to be the daughter of a Kuwaiti ambassador, and her story fabricated by American PR firm Hill & Knowlton
BoEy TIL there’s an Elvis album called Having Fun With Elvis On Stage that contains no music, only comments made onstage between shows. It was released by his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, to get around RCA’s ownership of his material.
DQXDD TIL that when you click and hold a YouTube video it will fast forward 2x... how have I missed this for 15+ years?
RvK9 TIL that Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the United States, had a son who remained loyal to the British crown and fled to London after the war and stayed there for the rest of his life
eVXL TIL a Congressional investigation into the NSA conducted nearly 40 years ago revealed that the NSA has been routinely monitoring telephone conversations of American citizens since the early 1950’s.