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TIL about Snatitation, a genetically-transmitted condition in which people sneeze after eating a meal and becoming full

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woD6J TIL that New York City’s Central Park was made by taking land from Seneca Village, a community founded by free Black Americans, and relocating the people living there.
M7DMB TIL 90s dance club anthem 'Insomnia' by Faithless was inspired after Maxi Jazz had dental surgery and was up all night with pain. He wrote the lyrics in 20 minutes and laid down the vocal track in 25 minutes. The song is unique in that the main keyboard riff does not appear until nearly the end.
E1A7o TIL that Charles Darwin's children left doodles all over the original "On the Origin of Species" manuscript.
aw15L TIL that Pakistan, a profiled Islamic nation, democratically elected a female Prime Minister in 1988 and 1993, Benazir Bhutto, thus becoming the first muslim majority nation lead by a woman.
7r15Z TIL performance artists Teching Hsieh & Linda Montano spent one year tied to each other at the waist with an 8-foot-long rope. They had to stay in the same room while indoors (including at Montano's teaching job); and they were not allowed to touch each other until the end of the one-year period.