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TIL: The medical term for a runny nose is “Rhinorrhea”.

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N7bGN TIL that Eminem almost died from a methadone overdose in 2007. Shorty after being released from the hospital he relapsed but quickly after that he stopped using drugs and has now been sober for ~11 years. The reason he gave for gaining his sobriety is that his family needed him.
Xyw6 TIL there’s a still a law stating that people in Chester, UK, can shoot a Welshman with a bow and arrow if they enter the city after midnight.
w1YP TIL that the punk band Crass was able to spook both the MI6 and the US State Department by releasing a phony tape recording of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher discussing using Europe as a nuclear battlefield front against the USSR.
d0lQ TIL In ancient Athens, a beautiful courtesan named Phryne was put on trial for a capital crime. Her defense, in the most well-known story of the event, consisted of stripping in court and asking the (all-male) jury if they were prepared to destroy this. She was acquitted.
kJ41B TIL While filming "Orca" actor Richard Harris read a tabloid magazine that photographed his wife Ann Turkel on a beach with a younger man. He wanted to stop filming, fly to Malibu and kill them both. Harris relented when he got into a brawl with the film's screenwriter and gave him a black eye.