› added 2 weeks ago

3

TIL that up to 93 million people suffer from Central Sleep Apnea, a sleep disorder where the brain ‘forgets’ to tell the body to breathe.

Read more pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

via reddit.com

oB4lo TIL To try to combat mosquito outbreaks, Disney World monitors coops of “sentinel chickens” that are stationed around the park. If a mosquito-borne virus shows up in the chickens’ blood, Disney doubles down on its bug-slaying efforts in the area.
QNJgL TIL: Cheese is one of the most shoplifted items from supermarkets
6986Q TIL one of Canadian Club whiskey's most important clients during US Prohibition was Al Capone who smuggled thousands of cases from a route from Windsor to Detroit.
wMvM TIL that Belarus is the last country in Europe that still uses the death penalty. The convicts are shot in the back of the head with a silenced PB-9 pistol. The whole procedure, starting with the announcement about denied appeals and ending with the gunshot, lasts no longer than two minutes.
QNg8E TIL George Washington's statue in London has soil from Virginia under it because Washington said in 1799 "I shall never step on English soil again"