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TIL Nasal decongestants works by narrowing the blood vessels in the nasal passages. Overusing them may cause congestion to get worse or it may improve but come back

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47jb TIL more people recognize the McDonald’s Golden Arches than the amount who recognize the Christian Holy Cross.
JYWNl TIL that bills making North Dakota and South Dakota into states were signed on the same day, and President William Harrison deliberately shuffled the papers together so history would be forever unable to tell which legally came into being as a state the first.
WkKXA TIL in the early 1890s one man released 100 European Starlings in New York City, which have grown to 200 million today as an invasive pest. The story goes he wished for all birds mentioned in Shakespeare's works to reside in America.
l7J9r TIL: the same man invented the Clean Room (CalTech), discovered the true age of the earth (4.5 billion), AND almost single-handedly got lead out of our gasoline and envirnoment. HERO: Clair Cameron Patterson
6bpZ TIL that the Pentagon alone has never been audited, leaving roughly $8.5 trillion in taxpayer dollars unaccounted for since 1996.