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TIL we can't make up for a sleep deficit by sleeping longer another day

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b9yRZ TIL: about “emergency backup goalies” (EBUGs) in the NHL. If a team’s primary and backup goalie are both injured during a game, anyone in the arena can be called on to suit up and play goal. The home team is always expected to have an amateur goalie in the arena.
8epdP Today I learned there are microbes and diseases plushies!
XEA9k TIL that most pencils are yellow because in the 1880s one manufacturer chose that color to indicate they were luxury pencils
nWmrb TIL a US Navy F11 Tiger shot itself down by during a weapons test by catching up with its own bullets.
4g1g TIL David Yost(The first Blue Ranger) is gay and quit Power Rangers because members of the cast and crew referred to him as a “faggot.”