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TIL that there is a phenomena called phantom vibration syndrome. It is the perception that one's mobile phone is vibrating/ringing even when it is not.

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G9K4 TIL the Taliban has kept a US soldier prisoner of war since 2009. He just had his 27th birthday in their custody.
GYGkN TIL that Julia Grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, was born with strabismus (crossed eyes). When her husband became president, she considered getting them surgically corrected, but he told her "Did I not see you and fall in love with you with these same eyes? I like them just as they are."
5YMQ8 TIL The first computers in the White House were installed by Jimmy Carter's administration. In 1978, the West Wing was equipped with a Hewlett Packard 3000. By the end of Carter's term, the White House had purchased its first laser printer
mxaPE TIL the character of Oliver in novel and movie Love Story, is partly based on Tommy Lee Jones who author Erich Segal met at Harvard. Jones plays one of Oliver's roommates in the 1970 film
0lWM TIL Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice for 34 years, was a member of the KKK.