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TIL that blind people have four times more nightmares than sighted people.

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QYVL TIL An estimated 81 percent of people lie during a job interview
ADdax TIL, Gropecunt Lane was a street name found in English towns and cities during the Middle Ages, believed to be a reference to the prostitution centred on those areas
nW9DB TIL that the reason older Disney characters don't have five fingers isn't to prevent giving the middle finger, but to make it smaller.
6EwDW TIL that a 2012 study found 1,458 “new to science” bacteria species in our belly buttons. People’s bacterial profiles are unique, like fingerprints, and can be used in the same way. One person had a bacterium only ever found in Japanese soil," where he had never been.