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TIL Just as some people talk in their sleep, sign language speakers have been known to sign in their sleep.

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jN4Ba TIL Englishman Dan Harris wanted to help bees struggling in urban areas such as on pavement with no flowers. So he crowdfunded "bee saviour" credit card sized feeders with 3 notches of beekeepers’ formula under a peel-off foil backing to sell for £4 via his not-for-profit co-op.
8grK TIL that dalmatians used to run alongside horse drawn firetrucks acting as a barking siren to clear crowds, thus their positive reputations with firefighters
9wKoB TIL that Yuma High School’s mascot is the Criminal because the first school building was the old Yuma Territorial Prison.
4ZyJ TIL A 1963 Gallup poll found 60% of Americans opposed MLK’s march on Washington
4j86 TIL: the US had slow average internet speed compared to the rest of the world due to (2) main things: (1) the expense of replacing old wire technologies and (2) their is no law yet stating that ISPs have to update their wiring