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TIL of the First Night Effect, where essentially only half your brain sleeps when you're in a new environment.

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neLLW TIL that around 30 per cent all the adaptive mutations in our genome – a third of human evolution – has been in response to viruses.
wOx1 TIL a group of ‘internet vigilantes’ (nerds from the midwest) convinced a group of Nigerian e-mail scammers to travel to war torn Chad in order to pick up their money, effectively stranding them in Chad for 109 days.
M5Am TIL the U.S. Patent office allowed someone to patent the idea of “wireless communication” in 2010. They are now suing Apple & Samsung.
mxeJv TIL: There's still an Inca-style woven-grass bridge standing. It dangles around 5 stories above Peru's Apurimac River and is over 115 feet long. Continuing a centuries-old tradition, area villagers annually restore the Q'eswachaka Rope Bridge and keep it in usable condition.
wLoPo TIL in 1976, Henry Kissinger became the first honorary Harlem Globetrotter.