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TIL the great frigatebird sleeps in 12 second bursts while in flight, allowing them to fly non-stop for months at a time.

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e0DVE TIL DJ Khaled used his baby son Asahd Tuck Khaled's reactions to the sounds to gauge the quality of songs for the album "Grateful" (the baby vomiting indicated best quality), and then had the baby legally declared the album's executive producer.
xA61 TIL the rat poison/life saving human medication Coumadin was discovered after cows were observed eating clover and then bleeding to death.
D1app TIL that the filling between the wafers in Kit-Kats is made from other mashed up Kit-Kats that didn't get past the quality assurance due to minor imperfections
RRp1 TIL the Romans had multi tools long before the Swiss made them.
1rW8 TIL Fracture Putty is a material being developed that when packed in & around a bone fracture, provides full load bearing strength within days. It would create an osteoconductive bone-like structure that degrades into harmless resorbable byproducts as normal bone heals.