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TIL you lose about a pound of weight everynight while you sleep, just by breathing.

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awkVL TIL in Israel on May 2nd on Yom HaShoah a siren wails for 2 minutes across the country to remember the more than 6 million Jewish people who died in the Holocaust. All activity stops nationwide.
16nAO TIL about the Helmand Culture (or Helmand Civilization) which existed in Bronze Age Afghanistan and Eastern Iran and they had Texts in the Elamite Language suggesting Connections to the West of Iran
7vb7 TIL In Japan, houses are considered depreciating assets. Half of all homes are destroyed by the time they are 38 and rebuilt. There are 4 times as many architects and twice as many construction workers per capita as the US. There is no home equity LOC and virtually no home improvement industry.
6XmW TIL David Yost, the Blue Power Ranger in the original “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” quit because of excessive homophobic harassment he endured on set from the production crew
wo5OY TIL a Polish farmer named Franciszek Honiok is considered the first victim of World War II after being murdered on the evening of 31 August 1939 as part of a Nazi plot to provide a justification for the invasion of Poland.