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TIL that tear duct is connected with the throat and that eye drops can seep to the throat and be tasted

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WaLL TIL that Lightning bolts prefer to take the path that an aircraft or rocket previously took.
x6o5o TIL the KGB once smuggled a Sidewinder missile from West Germany by mailing it in pieces to Moscow. An agent earlier broke it through the back window of his Mercedes to drive back from the airbase, marked with a red cloth as required by law. He had brought it down the entire runway in a wheelbarrow.
WmYA TIL James Cameron made the movie Titanic to get a dive to the shipwreck funded by the movie studio; not because he particularly wanted to make the movie.
ADXY4 TIL about the indigenous Brazilian tribe of the Pirahã, who lost interest in converting to Christianity when they found out the missionary Daniel Everett had never seen Jesus himself.
dDE0K TIL Freud smoked about 20 cigars a day and was not convinced that cigars were linked to his heart problems. He eventually got oral cancer, suffered attacks of “tobacco angina”, or heart palpitations, whenever he smoked, and died with removed jaw