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TIL about Sunflower Syndrome. A poorly understood type of epilepsy, sufferers are drawn to seeking out and looking at bright light (including the sun). This results in a brief hand-waving gesture across the face, or eye-flickering seizure up to hundreds of times a day.

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Z8rAY TIL Rockapella, the a cappella group featured in the gameshow Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego, is still making music. While there has been turnover in the members, they are still touring.
e05EJ TIL the famous WW2 song (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover is false, because bluebirds are only native to the Americas
WoP9 TIL that 101 years before Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin, an African American woman named Elizabeth Jennings refused to be removed from a New York City trolley. Her case in the Brooklyn Circuit Court led to the desegregation of all NYC trolley lines. Her attorney? Future president Chester A. Arthur
mxVmp TIL Manoj Bhargava the creator of 5 Hour energy created the formula in 30 days, has a net worth of 4 billion and plans donate 99 percent of his wealth by creating a series of inventions to help 3rd world countries receive basic functions like water, electricity, and health.
KYBdB TIL that in 1538, King Henry VIII of England demolished the entire village of Cuddington in Surrey to build Nonsuch Palace. The palace had yet to be completed when Henry VIII died in 1547, and was sold to and finished by Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel in 1556.