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TIL that some birds sleep while flying by allowing one half of their brains to sleep while the other maintains environmental awareness and aerodynamic control.

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NynE TIL that in addition to having the same social structure as bees, being resistant to cancer, and able to live up to 31 years, naked mole rats also have no pain sensation in their skin.
e0wNL TIL in Rambo III the character of John Rambo was fighting on the same side as Osama Bin Laden
6pGm TIL Danny Lloyd, the child actor who played Danny Torrance in The Shining, was closely guarded by Kubrick during filming and didn’t know it was a horror film until several years later.
aw1mb TIL In Iceland, A law was passed prohibiting children aged between 13 and 16 from being outside after 10 p.m. in winter and midnight in summer.
ENkW TIL the group that recorded “It’s Raining Men” changed their name to The Weather Girls after recording the song