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TIL the higher someone’s I.Q. the more likely they are to be sleep deprived.

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xxx0 TIL The Museum of Endangered Sounds exists to allow streaming of once popular technological sounds. ie. the dial-up tone, ICQ chat tone, Windows 95 startup.
X0ZgR TIL a Massachusetts supermarket offered free shuttle service to customers to bring them to and from the store after it had less than 10 shopping carts left. The goal was to prevent losing any more carts from customers who were bringing their groceries home in the carts and not returning them.
ADPRg TIL about the Public Universal Friend, an 18th century Quaker preacher who claimed to have died and been reborn as a genderless, nameless individual and went on to found a religious movement known as the Society of Universal Friends.
4XpnJ TIL that human laughter evolved from the distinctive panting by our great-ape relatives during rough and tumble play; that panting functions as a signal that the play is all in good fun and not an attack.
yQVYJ TIL that due to lack of fertilizer, North Korean shops once sold (or still selling) human feces