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TIL when you blink your brain treats it as a tiny nap. Giving the average person between 20,000 and 30,000 two-tenths of a second naps every day, or roughly 10 percent of their waking hours.

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yQy9J TIL that chemistry graduate student Barry Kidston gave himself Parkinson's disease after ingesting a compound he synthesized for a legal high. An impurity he neglected is toxic to dopamine neurons, which is responsible for the effect. He was treated, but died of a cocaine overdose 18 months later.
69eMW TIL that, on average, a dairy cow produces 100 pounds of milk per day, which equates to 12.5 gallons per day!
Y786G TIL The Khejarli massacre in 1730 resulted in 363 protestors being killed while protecting a forest. This gave rise to the "Chipko Movement" also known as "Tree huggers" in India
9G4m TIL that China had a civil war at the same time as the American Civil War, resulting in 30 million dead
5YQkr TIL that Einstein's brain has been dissected and found to be no bigger than average but has significantly more astrocytes, which are poorly-understood neural connectors that anyone can increase by continuing to learn new things, and with a good diet, exercise, and love.