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TIL hallucinations can occur in any sensory modality—visual (sight), auditory (sound), olfactory (smell), gustatory (taste), tactile (touch), equilibrioceptive (balance), nociceptive (harm), thermoceptive (temperature), and chronoceptive (time).

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N7gaJ TIL that Winston Churchill served as MP for 64 years. He served under both Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth.
bnAQ TIL that the banana actually is used as a unit of measure for radiation exposure.
MevBB TIL Gene Autry wrote "Here Comes Santa Claus" after hearing children repeatedly scream the phrase during the Hollywood Christmas Parade.
gXE4 TIL that Abraham Lincoln was challenged to a duel and given the choice of weapon, went with broadswords
OoVvg Researchers from University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Arizona State University found that if a car is parked in the sun on a summer day, the interior temperature can reach 116 degrees F. and the dashboard may exceed 165 degrees F. in approximately one hour — the time it can take for a young child trapped in a car to suffer fatal injuries.