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TIL: “Hearing” people modify the sound of their sneezes. While deaf people sneeze naturally, hearing people feel compelled to add sound effects, in the form of an “ah-choo” sound.

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epw6n TIL one of the moons of Mars (Phobos) orbits Mars much faster than Mars rotates, and completes an orbit in just 7 hours and 39 minutes. From the surface of Mars it appears to rise in the west, move across the sky in 4 hours and 15 minutes, and set in the east, twice each Martian day.
6EPYl TIL Queen Min, the last Queen of Korea, was killed by Japanese Assassins in her own palace as she forged closer ties with Russia to counter the growing Japanese Empire.
e0AZE TIL that in the 17th century, Ottoman pirates would raid southwestern England and take English people as slaves
ONJ1 TIL Auschwitz prisoner Kazimierz Piechowski, along with 3 others, were able to escape the camp by simply dressing up as Nazi Officers & commandeering the Deputy Führer’s car. When they arrived at the gate they simply barked orders to the guards who let them out no questions asked.
6wBl TIL a New Zealand teen set a friend on fire as a prank. In his defense he stated “If he’d stopped, dropped and rolled, it would have just been a joke instead of a serious incident.”