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TIL: About Alphonse Bertillion, an anthropologist and chief of France’s Judicial Identification Services who developed and was featured in the first standardized mug shot.

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wL9oo TIL Around 1300 people died in a crowd stampede during the 1896 coronation of Nicholas II when it was heard that a limited number of coronation gifts were being distributed.
VMdAm TIL that "ACHOO", the phonetic word for a sneeze, is actually an acronym for "Autosomal Cholinergic Helio-Ophtalmologic Outburst syndrome". This strange sensation is also known as a Photic Sneeze Reflex, which is the feeling you have to sneeze while looking at a bright light.
OVY6 TIL You can’t breathe while pooping because your epiglottis closes and you use the air pressure in your lung to push out the.. waste.
JeLl TIL of Mike Millard, one of the most legendary concert bootleggers, who would pretend to be handicapped in order to sneak in his recording equipment on his wheelchair. His recordings are considered some of the best, even to this day.
VvkB TIL President Cleveland said to 5-year-old FDR, “My little man, I am making a strange wish for you. It is that you may never be president of the United States.”