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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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vG5L TIL Despite being nominated five times, Gandhi never won a Nobel Peace Prize. In 1948, the year he died, no one was awarded the prize as there were no suitable living candidates.
pWWe TIL that in 1931, after Texas Rangers barricaded a bridge spanning the TX-OK border, Oklahoma Gov. “Alfalfa Bill” Murray appeared at the site armed with a revolver, backed by the Okla. National Guard, to reopen the bridge. The bloodless “Red River Bridge War” even got the attention of Adolf Hitler.
NXP1e TIL that the word kidnap is relatively recent and originally meant "to steal or carry off children or others in order to provide servants or labourers for the American plantations."
Ebd7 TIL that Alabama governor George Wallace, known for his pro-segregation stance which he later recanted, appointed more black members to state positions during his final term than any other governor in the state to this day.
QNGNe TIL that Mel Brook's character in Blazing Saddles was named after a famous French flatulist, Joseph Pujol, better known by his stage name Le Pétomane.