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TIL that there is a term for people who chronically have a hard time getting out of bed in the morning called DYSANIA.

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QvpM TIL that from 2003 to 2008 over $40 Billions in cold, hard, cash were flown from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad. Now nobody knows what happened to the money.
WkXJ8 TIL the pink fairy armadillo is barely half a foot long, and here is one on video in reduced sunlight foraging around in the sand for roots and grubs on a rural road, and luckily some passersby were able to film it in action. It is native to South America.It mostly active at dawn, dusk, and night.
mx7Mx TIL about the extinct Antarctic wolf, which was the only land mammal native to the Falkland Islands and was so tame that "it was possible to lure the animal with a chunk of meat held in one hand, and kill it with a knife held in the other"
XGWX TIL “Little Mama” is believed to be the oldest chimpanzee in captivity, born in Africa in 1938.
m1NWv TIL: People used to believe that the blood of the freshly executed was a health tonic and would pay executioners a little money to let them drink it warm.