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TIL people sneeze differently around the world. In English we say “Achoo!”, Russians say “Apchkhi!”, the Polish say “A-Psik!”, and the Japanese say “Hakushon!”.

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4jgJ TIL the strongest man in history was from Canada.
K0VG TIL that ESPN boxing analyst and trainer Teddy Atlas once held a .38 caliber handgun to Mike Tyson’s head after Tyson touched Atlas’ 11 year old relative on the butt.
wen6 TIL there is country that ranks lower than North Korea in the Press Freedom Index, which measures how much freedom journalists have. Eritrea surpassed North Korea as the bottom spot in 2007 and has held it since.
ADd5n TIL Mithridates VI of Pontus daily ingested small doses of poison because he feared being poisoned during his reign. After defeat by Pompey in the third Mithridatic war, he tried to commit suicide by using poison. His attempt failed because he had developed immunity.
pbJZ TIL the amount of electricity running the Bitcoin Network could power 1.3 million homes.