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TIL that the Guinness World Record for the longest hiccuping spree is held by Charles Osborne, who hiccupped for 68 years straight

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b6EyQ TIL Michael Bay was under consideration to direct the movie Phone Booth (2002), but he was removed from consideration after the first question he had about the script was, "OK, how do we get this thing out of the damn telephone booth?"
GnNN TIL there’s a type of English meatball called a Faggot
xV69k TIL that there were coin operated vending machines in ancient greece
ZYYp TIL that Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
KOBQw TIL one of the longest running civil wars in the world is the Karen Conflict, which has been going on since 1949 between the Burmese/Myanmar government and the Karen minority nationalists in Karen State, Myanmar.