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TIL there is something called ACHOO syndrome, which is a condition that causes sneezing, including when you step into bright light

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4k1EJ TIL of Hans Litten, a lawyer who cross-examined Hitler in 1931 about a violent attack on political opponents, hoping to show Germans that Hitler wanted to violently overthrow democracy. Refusing to flee Germany after Hitler took power, he was imprisoned in concentration camps until dying in 1938.
9Y0j7 TIL the reason a software wizard is called wizard, is because there used to be software experts nicknamed wizards that helped users to go trough tasks, and the name stuck when the wizards became part of the softwares themselves
KjG6 TIL the reason England kept the Germanic ‘Earl’ rather than the Latinised 'Count’ in the Middle Ages was because 'Count’ was too phonetically similar to 'cunt’
Z8oD4 TIL Taiwan has an island (Kinmen County) that's only 2 km off the coast of China.
vPReK TIL that the African Union has a 43-party free trade zone for goods, stretching from South Africa to Tunisia