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TIL that the tissue inside your nose that makes it feel stuffed when sick is actually the same erectile tissue in your genitals.

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GZX7 TIL that every medicine certified by the FDA must be tested using horseshoe crab blood.
mxDeo TIL there is an event in history called "The Great Stink". In 1858, central London got so stinky because of untreated sewage, that it became unbearable for local population. Incidentally that event became starting point to modernize sewage treatment as we have it today.
7BA7 TIL that Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball Z, never wrote down background notes for characters or for the series. In fact, he actually admitted forgetting there was a Super Saiyan 2, he drew Goku transforming straight from Super Saiyan 1 to 3.
N6Pb TIL William Halsted, a pioneering surgeon from the 19th century who discovered anesthetic properties of cocaine, eventually got addicted to it. He signed himself up in a sanatorium where his addiction was “treated” with morphine. He remained a morphine addict for the rest of his life
daaK TIL around 1000 AD there was a Native American city with a population around 50,000, and that archeologists aren’t sure how it became a ghost town by 1300 AD.