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TIL In Bulgarian legends, it is said that if you walk beneath a rainbow, you will change genders

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GAnDE TIL about Sunflower Syndrome. A poorly understood type of epilepsy, sufferers are drawn to seeking out and looking at bright light (including the sun). This results in a brief hand-waving gesture across the face, or eye-flickering seizure up to hundreds of times a day.
E1Kbx TIL the actor who played the kid in The Ring is actually a beast. He got accepted to UCLA at age 13, graduated as valedictorian. Then went on to student law at Harvard. While still acting in movies. Today he is works for the House of Representative as a legal counsel.
PYYWg TIL the Queen of England legally owns all unclaimed Swans in British waters. Each year her Royal Swan Marker conducts a census of Swans on the River Thames
woPb6 Today I learned that floaters in your vision aren’t bits of dust stuck on your iris but they are actually inside your fucking eyeball
dr6Q TIL lobster used to be “poor people’s food”. A can of lobster was cheaper than a can of baked beans.