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TIL you can't sneeze when you're sleeping
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TIL that in 2011, a Russian woman woke up at her funeral only to die of a heart attack from the shock minutes later.
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TIL: Before being a comedian, Burt Kreischer was featured in Rolling Stone for being a prolific 25 year old student partier at FSU and is thought to be the inspiration for Van Wilder.
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TiL for the Rolling Stones 1967 single "We Love You", John Lennon and Paul McCartney provided uncredited backing vocals.
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TIL there is a fierce rivalry between the neighbouring English counties of Cornwall & Devon, with each claiming to have invented 'pasties', and each insisting the other is wrong regarding whether to put jam or cream first on scones.
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TIL that the microwave oven was invented by accident. In 1945, Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer, was working in a lab testing magnetrons, the high-powered vacuum tubes inside radars that produced microwaves, where he noticed a peanut butter candy bar in his pocket had begun to melt