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TIL I have ACHOO Syndrome. Characterized by uncontrollable sneezing in response to the sudden exposure to bright light, typically intense sunlight

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xVxB0 TIL that Thomas Edison Jr., unlike his famous father, was a terrible inventor. Eventually, he resorted to selling snake oil like the "Edison Magno-Electric Vitalizer", embarrassing his father so much that he was given an allowance of 900 dollars a week to stop marketing his own "inventions".
kOeE5 TIL of 'kangaroo words', that is, a word that contains a synonym inside it, i.e MAscuLinE, BLOssOM, cHickEN or hoNOuraBLE.
78eOx TIL about the Oncorhynchus rastrosus, also known as the saber-toothed salmon, an extinct species of salmon. Members of this species had a pair of small "fangs" protruding from the tip of the snout
1akR7 TIL of Bruce Patterson, a British man who in 2010 managed to put six Cadbury's Creme Eggs in his anus. Five years later he managed to break his own record by anally inserting nine of them.
Agl4 TIL in 1983, a small town in Missouri was permanently evacuated when high levels of dioxin were discovered in soil samples. It was discovered that a man hired to oil the dirt roads to keep dust down had used waste from a company making Agent Orange.