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TIL: That I am part of 18-35 %of the population who sneeze when looking at bright light after being in a darker environment. It's caused by an appropriately named disorder called ACHOO.

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nWW8Y TIL that Jim Leavelle, the tan-suited detective famously present at the killing of JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, was also a witness to the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941.
wANP TIL A five-year review of dog-bite injuries from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, published in 2009 in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, found that almost 51 percent of the attacks were from pit bulls
95JM TIL that according to a 2013 study, practitioners of BDSM (Bondage, Discipline & Sado-Masochism) have a better mental health overall than practitioners of “vanilla” sex.
xVJMo TIL: German Chocolate Cake was named after English-American chocolate maker named Samuel German; Not the Country of Germany.
BgBnd TIL an analysis of Beethoven's hair found high levels of lead, arsenic & mercury. The high amount of lead in particular likely contributed to his deafness. One lock of hair had 380 micrograms per gram & a second one had 258 micrograms. A normal level of lead is around 4 micrograms or less per gram.