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TIL you can't sneeze when you're sleeping

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4Xero TIL of a man named Frank Amodeo who had a plan to become emperor of the world. He owned several private security firms employing 40,000 people, met with Bush in the white-house and regularly worked with intelligence agencies world wide. He was busted for tax fraud and he is currently in prison.
NXGB6 TIL glass is permeable for hydrogen ions, like a sieve
j6Zon TIL that a man survived a fall from the 47th floor of a skyscraper in New York City in 2007. His fall was broken by a series of scaffolding, and he only suffered minor injuries. Doctors called his survival a "miracle."
b9Pma TIL that in 1904 a British mission lead by Colonel Francis Younghusband killed 1,300 Tibetans in Gyangzê. This is omitted in every Western media statement about Tibetan independence from PRC.
v1ngK TIL that Adelicia Acklen saved her fortune because she was friends with a Confederate general and friendly with a Union admiral. The general agreed not to burn her Louisiana cotton and the admiral allowed her to ship it to New Orleans. She sold it to the Rothchilds of London for $960,000.