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TIL the clinical term for a runny nose is Rhinorrhea

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5N7p TIL that Patrick Stewart’s son, Daniel, plays Picard’s son in The Inner Light, in his alternative life on Kataan.
R5nY1 TIL about the Norwegian Crusade. In the year 1107, King Sigurd led 5000 Norwegian soldiers as they fought their way across Europe to Jerusalem. He was the first Christian King to visit the Holy Land. He visited many of the Holy Sites and then returned to Norway mostly on horseback.
mxr4R TIL I learned about Mellified man. The donor would only eat honey, going as far as to bathe in the substance. Shortly, his feces (and even his sweat, according to legend) would consist of honey. When this diet finally proved fatal, the donor's body would be placed in a stone coffin filled with honey
rRXJ1 TIL Wang Meng was sent to Xinjiang to be "reformed" through labor in 1963 for writing a controversial piece. During this period of hardship he accrued much of the experience that would later become the material for his short stories and novels, and he later became China's Minister of Culture
ljpa TIL 1960s Argentina experienced a musical phenomenon similar to that of the British Invasion in the U.S. but with Uruguayan musical groups.