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TIL that blocked noses are not caused by booger plugs, they’re actually caused by inflamed blood vessels pinching your nasal cavity shut, so no amount of blowing your nose will clear the blockage

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NX4Gb TIL Hawaii is the least affordable US state overall, as the cost of living is 20.32% higher than the average wage.
nenRY TIL India's army reportedly spent six months watching "Chinese spy drones" violating its air space, only to find out they were actually Jupiter and Venus.
ANJLg TIL that the last space shuttle flight was in 2011 by the orbital Atlantis. The NASA program lasted 30 years with 135 flights.
9YxDQ TIL legendary basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is an avid Holmesian and authored his own stories based on Mycroft Holmes in prose and comic mediums
BeND TIL Marie Curie (née Skłodowska) named the element Polonium (symbol: Po) after her country of birth, Poland (Latin: Polonia), which was then part of the Russian Empire.