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TIL that North Korea has a VHS copy of Space Jam enshrined in a musuem

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m11vy TIL Achoo Syndrome is characterized by uncontrollable sneezing after sudden exposure to bright light such as the sun.
XEgG6 TIL that the name "battery" was first used by Benjamin Franklin in his experiments with Leyden Jars (early electrostatic capacitors) and originally only meant "a group of two or more" borrowing the term from artillery batteries.
yQRBw TIL, in 1839, Charles Goodyear accidentally created Vulcanized Rubber when he dropped some rubber on a hot stove with sulfur, hardening it, making it much more durable.
yVLRe TIL Major Henry Rathbone, the man sitting next to Lincoln when he was assassinated in 1865, died in an insane asylum in Germany in 1911 after murdering his wife in front of his kids.
R5ZR9 TIL that the total length of our blood vessels is not 100,000km contrary to popular belief but only approximately 10,000km. The larger number has been incorrectly regarded as true since 1928 and was debunked in a recent study.