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TIL 1 out of every 3 people sneeze when exposed to bright light.

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Q4Xd TIL that the biggest sperm bank in the world turns down red headed donors because “not enough people want ginger kids”
6EdVW TIL about the Yellow Fleet, a group of 15 boats trapped in the Suez Canal due to the Six Day War. The multinational crew formed a lawless entity for 8 years and even had recognized postal stamps.
BrgLd TIL in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, a central African country entered as Northern Rhodesia and left as Zambia becoming the first country to change its name and flag during the games.
4BPJ TIL the creators of Adventure Time, Regular Show, and Gravity Falls all started out working together on the The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.
AWml TIL Marlon Brando rejected his 1973 Oscar for ‘The Godfather’ reason being the poor treatment of American Indians by the film industry.This message which was conveyed during the ceremony by an American Indian girl who was booed by the crowd.