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TIL that there are five levels of closed-eye hallucinations

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KOjQQ TIL of Throne of Blood, a retelling of Macbeth set in Feudal Japan
8eAeL TIL there are some time zones in the world that are offset 30 (or even 45) minutes (instead of the usual 60 minutes) from UTC (Coordinated Universal Time)
e05LL TIL 85% of our old clothes end up in a landfill, equating to about 25 billion tons of textile waste annually in North America that contaminate the water and soil because most of the clothing fibers cannot biodegrade.
ADEBw TIL that Nazis left behind so many of their Karabiner 98k rifles at the end of WW2 that they ended up being used for the rest of the 20th century all over the world, and some were even used in Iraq after the 2003 invasion. Somewhere out there, an 80-year-old Nazi rifle is still used in warfare.
EgPp7 TIL that giving a newborn baby too much water can make it sick