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TIL when someone says they’re allergic to dust, they are actually allergic to the feces left behind by a house dust mite that it secreted onto the dead skin cell.

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9w6m6 TIL that approximately 700 years before the Great Pyramids were built, there was a royal bloodline in Ireland, aka Atlantis
P1g1J TIL: Flight Attendants are not paid until the doors close
YpBnP TIL that there is an area in Turkey where people talk to each other using a whistled language that can be heard up to half a mile away.
9wkvp TIL that "Manic Monday" by the Bangles was written by Prince under the pseudonym "Christopher"