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TIL Pablo Pineda was the first student with Down Syndrome in Europe to obtain a university degree.

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nW4dW TIL about the nasal cycle - many people mostly breathe (75%) through one nostril at a time and the dominant nostril alternates throughout the day. You can actually feel which one is dominanting now if you focus.
6EnkW TIL about the Bolton Strid. Running through Bolton Abby in Yorkshire, England is a 6-foot wide, seemingly calm stretch of water that has claimed the lives of anyone who ever entered it.
0wxlL TIL The bacteria that is responsible for the smell of blue cheese is the same one that is responsible for foot and other human body odours.
kOjR4 TIL about Beate Sirota, an Austrian-born Jew raised in Japan. She was educated at the German School of Tokyo for six years, but her parents deemed it "too Nazi" and moved her to the American school. She helped write the Japanese constitution in 1946 ensuring equality for women is enshrined in law.
xVjpk TIL of the "swampers" of the Okefenokee Swamp, people of English ancestry who due to their isolation living deep in the swamp still used elizabethan phrases and syntax from colonial times well into the 20th century.