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TIL You are taller in the morning. When you sleep, your spine stretches out, making you slightly taller when you first wake up. Throughout the day, gravity causes you to compress again.

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VBkBD TIL the White Lion brought African indentured servants to what became the USA a year before the mayflower.
x65gD TIL that Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers, Florida is the the #2 busiest single-runway airport in the United States; #1 is the San Diego International Airport. It is also the largest airport in Florida, and third-largest airport in the U.S. based on total area (13,555 acres).
BrOve TIL that of Canada’s history with slavery. Indigenous people made up TWO THIRDS of the slaves in Canada.
P1pwJ TIL one of the earliest medical descriptions of a phobia was by Hippocrates (460 - 370BC) who recounted a man named Nicanor who apparently suffered from a fear of flute music.
VBoeD TIL the Monorail song from the Simpsons is based on the song “Ya Got Trouble” from the 1958 stage show The Music Man