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TIL that Dolphins sleep with one eye open

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xooB TIL Black Women account for 72% of all new HIV cases
x66R5 TIL Microsoft held a mock funeral for iPhone because they thought the windows phone 7 was going to smash apple in sales
9Ebr TIL the “Door to Hell” in Turkmenistan is a natural gas field that collapsed into an underground cavern in 1971, becoming a natural gas crater. Wanting to prevent spread of methane gas, Geologists set it on fire expecting it to burn out in a few weeks- It has instead continued to burn for >4 decades
0wMPM TIL that although it is believed that serotonin deficiency plays a role in depression, there have not been any studies proving that brain levels of this or any neurotransmitter are in short supply when any mental illness develops
kYVd TIL that singing birthday cards have more processing power than the combined computers of the Allied Forces in World War II.