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TIL a teen got hyperacusis after an airhorn was blasted near her ear. Her type of hyperacusis makes her so sensitive to sound that it hurts and caused her to drop out of school because the voices of teachers were too painful. She also needs special noise cancelling headphones at the mall.

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b9l6Z TIL of the Bolton Strid, a small creek in Yorkshire, England, which while appearing harmless has swallowed every person to enter it. This is due to a mass of undercurrents and submerged caves undetectable from the surface.
nDRY TIL that a Viking General, Sigurd the Mighty, was killed by a severed head of his enemy. He had attached the severed head to his saddle and the heads teeth grazed his leg and gave him an infection that he died from.
8vv4 TIL King Harald of Norway vowed to remain unmarried for life unless he could marry his true love, the daughter of a cloth merchant. She became the Queen of Norway.
Mp8m TIL that the USA and Russia have islands that are just 2.5 miles apart, and the water between them freezes over in the winter. So technically you can walk from the USA to Russia.
kOgLm TIL: Johnny Cash and his first wife Vivian, named their daughter, Rosanne, after Cash's nicknames for his wife's breasts, "Rose" and "Anne."