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TIL Peta Kills About 85% of the Animals They “Save”

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newxr TIL that Branford Marsalis played saxophone on Public Enemy's Fight the Power
9YYrX TIL that Latvia imports almost as much tequila as Canada or Brazil
kJdlB TIL the human brain remains half awake when sleeping in a new environment for the first time. When we sleep in a new place, our brains are actually in survival mode, only turning half off, with one hemisphere remaining more “awake” than the other
W7GMN TIL that “bookworms” aren’t just a term for readers—bookworms are actual bugs that used to burrow into ancient books, damaging them by eating the binding glue and paper fibers.
ANVd7 TIL In 2018 a guy asked Insomniac Games to put a marriage proposal in Marvel's Spider-Man in an attempt to save his marriage. They did it for him, putting the message on a movie theater sign, but later it was discovered that she broke up with him and she didn't even like video games.