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TIL that some people with OCD suffer from “sensorimotor obsessions”, the hyperawareness of and focus on bodily processes or sensations such as the act of breathing, blinking, swallowing, or their own heartbeat.

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ep9Jg TIL about the 1900 English beer poisoning. More than 6,000 people in England were poisoned by arsenic-tainted beer. It took 4 months to be noticed, with doctors initially misdiagnosing it as alcoholic neuropathy
KYljQ TIL Theodore Roosevelt's wife and mother both died on the very same day of unrelated health issues
XEKAD TIL Brooke Shields was only 14 when "The Blue Lagoon" was filmed
p8j8b TIL When President Cleveland lost the reelection to Harrison, he thought he was done with government. He and his wife lived in a hotel while searching for a house and the ex-president considered various lucrative job offers in the private sector, eventually accepting a law firm job
N06J TIL that the Irish Parliament once passed a bill of attainder requiring thousands to go to Dublin for sentencing for their supposed disloyalty. Viscount Mountjoy was in prison in the Bastille at the time; he was ordered to break out and get to Dublin, or else face being drawn and quartered.