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TIL that there is a genetic basis for sneezing when you are exposed to sunlight

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4X0YJ TIL about the dangerous Onbashira Festival, which involves participants to ride on sixteen enormous 50-foot/15-meter, 10-ton/9,000-kg logs down steep mountains among other difficult terrains in a ceremony known as Kiotoshi, that takes place in Nagano, Japan. Injury and fatal incidents are frequent.
k9ge TIL There have been no documented cases of children dying due to eating poisoned Halloween candy.
KLoR TIL The 72 virgins promised to male believers are each 90 ft tall, 10.5ft wide, and have skin that is transparent to the bone marrow.
neJ0P TIL that Notre Dame has about 180,000 bees living on its rooftop and they all survived the 2019 fire.
oBMD7 TIL the phrase "What would Jesus do?" came out of Christian Socialism, and the belief that the moral teachings of Jesus were thoroughly incompatible with capitalism