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TIL sleep deprivation beyond 24 hours causes visual, auditory and sensory hallucinations, progressing to psychosis

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8ZjK TIL The founder of the American Nazi party was murdered outside a laundromat by one of his own supporters.
oBp8 TIL that Cyberdyne, the company responsible for the genocidal robots in the Terminator, is a real company that creates artificial robotic limbs.
rNEvW TIL in his final years, Marlon Brando was a secret tech geek who collected Mac computers, experimented with digital effects and Photoshop, was a fan of the game Myst, and pretended to be a Chinese exchange student online
6EXK8 TIL that Apple made retailers buy iMacs in "five-packs, one in each color," so that Apple wouldn't get stuck with the unpopular colors
ADnQn TIL in 1981 a CIA agent escaped Iran using a fake German passport. He was detained because it used the middle initial "H", and German passports didn't use initials. The quick-thinking agent was released after claiming that it stood for "Hitler" and he had special permission to use an initial.