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TIL that to cure the stuffiest of noses, just pinch your nose and nod your head up and down.

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PY9Lw TIL when Stephen Hawking met with the Pope in the Vatican, the Pope knelt down when he had trouble understand Hawking. This prompted one scientist in the room to say that "things certainly have changed since Galileo."
lmZB TIL that people used to think the kidneys governed one’s conscience, and several Bible verses say God inspects the kidneys of the dead. Jewish tradition holds that one kidney counsels what is good, and the other what is evil.
nenKb TIL Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro is the Only Coast Guard Medal of Honor Recipient and helped save 500 Marines at Guadalcanal. He died while getting the last Marines out. His last words were “Did they get off?” referring to the last of the Marines.
9Ar7 TIL the mysterious 120-ton boulder walls of an ancient fortress in Sacsayhuaman, Peru have survived thousands of years, including earthquakes, in part because they are “fit together with such precision you can’t fit a piece of paper between them”
VBA88 TIL that after the 1984 McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, Burger King suspended all of their advertising in solidarity with McDonald's.