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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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YpQZW TIL For the past 45 million years tarsiers have inhabited rainforests around the world, but now they only exist on a few islands in the Philippines, Borneo and Indonesia. In Bohol, the Philippine Tarsier was a common sight in the southern part of the island until the 1960's
5Y8Ep TIL a virus (Adv36) can cause obesity and might actually be one of the causes for current high obesity rates.
O7PY TIL of a woman who presented a forged doctor’s note as an excuse for missing her sentencing for, that’s right, forgery.
j4QM TIL the Beatles asked Stanley Kubrick to direct Lord of the Rings starring George as Gandalf, Paul as Frodo, Ringo as Sam, and John as Gollum but J.R.R. Tolkien wouldn’t let them do it.
8aoeV TIL of xenobots; Synthetic lifeforms designed by AI which are part robot, part organism, the size of a grain of sand and capable of performing tasks such as pushing payloads, cleaning debris, working together in swarms and even reproduce new xenobots