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TIL Giraffes need surprisingly little sleep. The average giraffe sleeps for 4.6 hours per day.

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aaDM TIL canned food excavated from the steamboat Bertrand was still safe to eat 110 years after it sank.
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VBnY0 TIL Sergei Federov, Alternate Captain of the Detroit Red Wings, dated 16 year old Anna Kournikova in 1996 after winning the Stanley Cup.