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TIL Dolphins sleep with one eye open and one eye closed. This is because only half of their brain is asleep at a time.

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NXQm1 TIL that in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as well as Raphael, Donatello, Leonardo and Michelangelo, Splinter also shares his name with a famous Renaissance artist - 'Lo Scheggia' or 'The Splinter'
x67Lw TIL that the Vietnam draft lottery ended up not being truly random because the guy didn't mix the balls in the urn sufficiently
e0WwL TIL Road Traffic Incidents account for 2% of global deaths yearly. For 2016, that was 1.36 million deaths. The highest non-disease related cause of deaths.
w9a6 TIL that adult Ms. Piggy has never been voiced by a female (Only the Baby version was voiced by a female)
dY6j TIL That the story of Jesus, born of a virgin, of royal descent, child teacher, 12 disciples, etc. was not novel at the origins of Christianity and has been a recurring theme in many religious mythologies.