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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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VMEP0 TIL the former dictator of the Central African Republic, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, forced the nation's school children to buy expensive uniforms from a company he owned. When the children protested, he had 100 of them executed as an example.
b8Ya TIL that during WWI, the United States attempted to change words that had German origins. Sauerkraut came to be called “liberty cabbage”, German measles became “liberty measles”, hamburgers became “liberty sandwiches”.
rRPKw TIL about the Republic of Vermont, an independent republic that lasted from 1777 to 1791, which, after breaking away from Quebec, fought with the Americans against the British in the Revolutionary War, and was admitted to the union as a counterweight to the slave state of Kentucky.
8aJR4 TIL that the Torajan people of Indonesia live with their dead for extended periods of time
v0Z4 TIL Plasma is actually the most common phase of matter in the universe. Despite being rare on Earth… the Sun, the stars, and most interstellar matter is plasma.