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TIL of a condition called nocturnal lagophthalmos, which prevents you from closing your eyes completely during sleep.

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lo1y1 TIL that after making an unsuccessful attempt on Franz Ferdinand's life Nedeljko Čabrinović tried killing himself by swallowing a cyanide pill then jumped into the nearby river finding that the cyanide pill was defective and that the river was only 4 inches deep. He was immediately arrested.
XEX0R TIL that Magda and Joseph Goebbels in the last days of WWII and while confined to the Führerbunker, arranged to have all 6 of their children killed with cyanide as they slept. They believed the children would support their decision to commit suicide if they were old enough to speak for themselves.
yVdla TIL that NATO states would not be obliged to defend Hawaii if it were attacked by a foreign power. This is because Article 6’s geographic ranges exclude Hawaii.
nWJGW TIL Michelle Kunimoto discovered dozens of planets while an undergraduate and Ph.D. student at age 26. She uses publicly available data collected by NASA’s Kepler Mission and studied them in a new, more sensitive way to find signals of planets that Kepler had missed
Je5Q TIL a New Zealand man memorized the French dictionary to compete in a French Scrabble tournament. He won the tournament despite not speaking any french.