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TIL Sneezing after cleaning isn’t caused by an allergy to dust, but an allergic reaction to the feces and dead carcasses of dust mites getting trapped in your nose

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X007j TIL Mark Cuban founded a company called Cost Plus Drugs that delivers life-saving medications without price gouging for as little as 0.5% of their normal retail price.
Jmoj TIL the last surviving Confederate widow (who died in 2004) married her former husband’s grandson, whose stepson was also his great uncle.
jNaXN TIL sweatshirts were invented in 1926 by Alabama football player Benjamin Russell Jr. as a more comfortable alternative to abrasive wool for practice jerseys. They were made by the Russell Manufacturing Company, founded by Russel Sr. and known today as Russell Athletic.
vAxR TIL after filming Fat Albert, Bill Cosby told co-star Kenan Thompson that Kenan is “… going to need two dicks because women will be all over you.”
Y7JmB TIL that everything from the ice hockey Stanley Cup, Port Stanley in the Falklands, Brisbane's Stanley county and Liverpool's Stanley Dock and Park are all named after one father and son.