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TIL Over-exerting the neck can cause a stroke. This includes heavy lifting, surfing, holding a phone neck to shoulder - all can cause micro-tears in neck arteries. Carotid artery dissection is the most common cause of ischemic stroke in young people

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Br1eL TIL a man who spent 11 years in federal prison for robbing banks became well-known as a jailhouse lawyer. While in prison, he started spending time in the law library and became an accomplished United States Supreme Court practitioner by the time he left in 2008.
epDNn TIL that one of the closest times mankind has been to nuclear war was in the 1950s when, among other things, US intelligence received reports of an identified flying object over Turkey- which was later identified as a wedge of swans
4kXVN TIL that before becoming president of the Democratic republic of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh worked as a dishwasher at the Drayton Court Hotel in London, as a line manager for GM in Boston and a pastry chef in Brooklyn among other jobs.
oBJmA TIL There are penguins that participate in prostitution. They perform sexual acts in exchange for pebbles. However, sometimes they will bait the male into thinking they’ll have sex, but then just run off with the pebble.
lJMK TIL in 1995 drug giant GlaxoSmithKline gathered over one hundred black and hispanic orphans, including toddlers and babies, to test the “toxicity” of their AIDS medication on them. They continued to do this for nearly ten years.