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TIL Absence Status Epilepticus is an epileptic condition in which convulsions do not occur and there is no postictal symptom. As a result, the person might remain unaware of the occurrence of the seizure.

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09Kv TIL There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover the entire land mass of North and South America with roughly one foot of water
1W18 TIL that in 2007 the U.S. Defence issued a warning that Canadians were planting spy coins on U.S. army visitors. Turned out to be quarters with the coloured remembrance day poppy.
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