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TIL About 1 in 10,000 people in the world suffers from a rare condition «Situs Inversus», when all internal organs are mirrored from their normal positions. Many people with this condition live their entire lives without knowing it.

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VeDk TIL in 1968, 20-year-old Barbara Mackle was kidnapped and buried alive inside a box containing an air pump, a lamp, water laced with sedatives, and food. Two plastic pipes provided her with outside air. Her kidnappers demanded and received a $500,000 ransom, and she was rescued three days later.
KjK6 TIL in June 1979, there was a record in the billboard top 100 called Ready N steady by D.A. This record is so rare to find that people are questioning it’s existence. This is called a case of “phantom recording”
YA5v TIL some experts estimate that around 30% of a dog’s brain is dedicated to analyzing smells. This is 40 times larger than a human’s, proportionately.
gMA6y TIL 7-Eleven owns the trademark to the word 'Brainfreeze'. The medical term is a cold-stimulus headache.
MjM8 TIL a huge portion of Montreal consists of a sprawling underground city center connecting most of the city’s office space as well as housing, museums, and a number of universities.