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TIL about Empty Nose Syndrome. A horrific condition you can develop after nasal surgery that gives you a 24/7 feeling of suffocation and has caused several of its sufferers to commit suicide.

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5V1dD TIL that Ken Allen aka "Hairy Houdini" escaped from his enclosures à la prison break multiple times; inciting his friends-orangutans to follow his lead. No surveillance, no undercover mission to try to catch him in the act, succeeded to fool Ken.
9x5G TIL that Tutankhamun’s body is not in a museum, but has been returned to his tomb.
a8Vd9 TIL about the Baltic Way: the longest human chain in history. It connected three capitals and represented unity and freedom.
PYPoe TIL A high school janitor stumbled upon a teacher who took nude photos of a student when he found a CD labeled 300 while cleaning his classroom. He thought it was the Zack Snyder film and reported the teacher after finding out the real content on the disk.
J1Oev TIL that taking fingerprints of those arrested by law enforcers is an official practice which goes back to Ancient Babylon, during the reign of Hammurabi (1792–1750 BCE)