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TIL that Rastafaris say “I and I” because they consider all people to be equal, instead of saying “We”.

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lQy1 TIL an orgasm can clear up your sinuses. This is because your body gets a rush of adrenaline when you have an orgasm, which causes tissues in the nose to shrink, opening up passageways.
nWEBb TIL the "Aztecs" never referred to themselves as that. They called themselves the Mexica (Me-SHEE-ka). The modern use of "Aztec" was coined by a Prussian Scholar in 1810, and derives from a term meaning "people from Aztlan", a mythical place of origin for several ethnic groups in central Mexico.
P10OJ TIL Tom Waits voiced a dog food commercial in 1981
4Rg6 TIL China killed at least 800,000 of its own citizens when it purposefully opened dikes to flood the Yellow River.
KOpGB TIL that every ten years, the artificial lake Osiglia, in Italy, is drained to maintain the dam and the old medieval village is visible to all.