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TIL that the reason you get a runny nose while crying is that tears are flowing both out of the eyes but also internally into the nasal passages so you're literally blowing tears out your nose.

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LQbmm TIL that high fructose corn syrup and sucrose (table sugar) have similar ratios of fructose and glucose: 55:42 and 50:50 respectively.
No9b TIL In the 1950s the government of Quebec illegally certified upwards of 20,000 orphaned children as mentally ill and had them committed to institutions. According to the testimony of several individuals, they were subjected to medical experimentation
o40L TIL that when Ellery Schempp won the landmark case which banned prayer in public schools, his high school principal wrote letters of disrecommendation to every college he applied to. He was accepted to each one.
v1p97 TIL that the giant blades from green energy-producing turbines need to be replaced as they fatigue, and they are piling up in landfills because they can't be recycled.
vVBr TIL According to Saudi Arabian law, women are not allowed to drive cars but are allowed to fly planes.