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TIL The excessive drool during nausea is to protect your throat, mouth & teeth from the acidic vomit

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kgb7 TIL that less intelligent people are twice as likely to interrupt in a conversation than more intelligent ones.
ANaAo TIL The seemingly nonsense phrase 'Fee-fi-fo-fum' from the Giant in Jack and the Beanstalk is likely a sentence in ancient Gaelic meaning "Behold food, good to eat, sufficient for my hunger!" The phrase is atleast several hundred years old and is referenced by Nashe and Shakespeare.
4k8b TIL that it’s actually not illegal for a former employer to give a bad reference, they just generally don’t do it to avoid being sued for defamation.
LQyep TIL of the 3 sacred gifts of Japan, they are: a sword, a mirror and a jade Jewel. They are believed to have been given over 5,000 years ago to the imperial family from the Shinto goddess, Amaterasu. only the current emperor, Naruhito, and other high-Shinto priests can see it.
xVdvb TIL that in 1659 the Massachusetts Bay Colony imposed a penalty for observing Christmas due to its pagan origins, calling it a “great dishonnor of God and offence of others.”