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TIL Newton dumped his South Sea shares, pocketing a 100% profit totaling £7,000. But just months later, swept up in the wild enthusiasm of the market, Newton jumped back in at a much higher price — and lost £20,000 (or more than $3 million in [2002-2003's] money.

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dDn8 TIL the real name for brain freeze is ‘sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia’. The pain receptors in the mouth signal to the brain however the same nerves are also in the forehead. The brain mixes up the source location of the pain and thus you get the resulting headache.
W7LE4 TIL: about Clive Wearing, a British Musician who contracted a herpes virus which attacked his central nervous system. This resulted in a total loss of memory except for 30 seconds in the present and the love he has for his wife.
Z8yQv TIL whilst working as a marine-biology teacher in 1986, Stephen Hillenburg was asked to create an educational comic about anthropomorphised sea life. He later adapted the characters within it, such as "Bob the Sponge", into one of the most popular and longest-running children's series of all time.
M7Jj8 TIL that almost every African country boycotted the 1976 Olympics because of New Zealand – whose rugby team had toured Apartheid South Africa earlier that year, yet was not banned by the Olympic organizers
nWpO7 TIL Bob Odenkirk wrote Chris Farley's "Matt Foley Motivational Speaker" sketch