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TIL you can't sneeze when you're sleeping
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N7Nve
TIL that the famous classical composer Vivaldi died poor and no music was played in his funeral.
515B
TIL that according to one researcher, ancients such as Alexander the Great were sometimes buried in honey. After about a hundred years, candied corpses were supposedly dug up and eaten as medicine.
P1PbE
TIL that at the opening ceremonies to the 1936 Summer Olympics, the event organizers made the mistake of shooting off a cannon after they had released hundreds of pigeons. While the cannon shot blanks, the sound of the shot scared the birds so much that they defecated on the athletes below.
Ooab6
TIL Sara Bareilles wrote "Love Song" in response to her record label demanding that she write a "marketable love song"
N7WGN
Today I Learned that there will be a Red Nova in our skies in 2022. This will be the first Nova we can see with the naked eye in decades.