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TIL: The Japanese consider sleeping at work honorable as it signals exhaustion from hard work

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1aX5X TIL A constant runny nose with a sweet rather than salty taste is likely to be cerebro-spinal fluid, not mucus.
rNLoo TIL: There exists a protein called "Sonic hedgehog SHH". Mutations in this gene can cause a condition known as "holoprosencephaly", a failure of splitting the two cerebral hemispheres, among other things.
kO51d TIL that Saint Valentine is not only the patron saint of love, but also of beekeeping. This puts a different perspective of the common Valentine's Day phrase "Bee Mine".
X017E TIL that people with HIV still live about 7 years shorter than people without HIV, and experience major chronic diseases (liver disease, kidney disease, lung disease, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer) about 10 years earlier than people without HIV.
DQDyj TIL that in 1990 Rupert Murdoch tried to buy the Palace of the Parliament in Romania, the biggest administrative building in the world for 1 billion dollars, his bid was rejected