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TIL a Vanderbilt study estimated that roughly 25% of women and 33% of men snort when they laugh.

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vlEB TIL in a private cemetery in Arkansas, a woman single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn’t claim them.
9wl7X TIL William Huggins’s first spectroscopic observations, published in 1863, showed that stars are composed of the same elements that occur on the Sun and Earth
m4lx TIL That Oda Nobunaga was so disrespectful at his own father’s funeral that one of his mentors committed seppuku
6ELjQ TIL: After Plato died , Aristotle went on to teach. Philip II of Macedonia hired him to tutor his son. Alexander who became Alexander the Great.
bpMp TIL that the “Somebody Else’s Problem” cloaking field described in the “Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” is based on a real psychological effect.