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TIL Duke University scientists find women need more sleep than men

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kJ6W1 TIL that the "Q" in Q-tips stands for "quality."
6W5J TIL in 1988 Quentin Tarantino made an appearance on the Golden Girls as an Elvis impersonator
0wkjM TIL that in the 1962 World Cup, the Chilean team ate Swiss cheese before beating Switzerland, spaghetti before beating Italy, and drank vodka before beating the USSR. Then they drank coffee before their match against Brazil but lost.
gro44 TIL Acorn Woodpeckers bore small holes into dead trees, which they store acorns inside of to eat during the winter. Sometimes generations of woodpeckers reuse the same tree to store their harvests, adding up to 50,000 holes!
N7gBb TIL that although Adolf Hitler had no children, there are still five living members of his extended family who have all sworn never to have kids of their own so that his infamous bloodline dies with them