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TIL you're not supposed to use nasal sprays for more than 3 days. Can cause rebounding congestion.

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697kJ TIL two songs sung by women (Manic Monday and Nothing Compares to You) reached the top 2 of the Billboard 100 in the mid 80s/early 90s. However, they were both written by a man named Prince Rogers Nelson, who went by the mononym Prince professionally.
J1Kdv TIL that there was a cold war operation that gathered official documents from trash bins, because they were frequently used as tissue paper in the tissue-paper-less east germany
jN76Q TIL of the once upper class Black community of Sugar Hill, Jacksonville, Florida. Chosen by city officials to be levelled - to build a multi-lane expressway through it during the 1950s and '60s - the community, once known for its elegance, sits devastated, largely boarded up and overgrown today.
pYANp TIL it is possible to have temperatures below absolute zero, but they are actually hotter than any positive temperature
b647N TIL that the US had something called “ugly laws”