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TIL the elapsed time in a dream is about the same as the elapsed time IRL. For example, if you dream of an activity that would take five minutes in waking life, you probably dream about it for a full five minutes.

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Vyx0 TIL that Antarctica was not discovered until 1820
W6EL TIL there is a 1200 acre lake that is super heated by a coal burning power plant, even in zero degree temperatures the water never dips below 50 degrees.
8adlZ TIL about Nikolai Vavilov, a Soviet botanist whose aim was to end hunger worldwide. He collected seeds of wild crops and deposited them in a seedbank in which to produce new strains of crops. Stalin denounced him and used him as a scapegoat for a famine. He died in prison from starvation.
j61KN TIL The Mummy (1999) helped Universal studios gross over one billion dollars in home video sales
W7kJ4 TIL about Fucino, a huge lake in central Italy that was completely drained and converted into one of the most fertile plains in the country.