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TIL In males, 80% to 95% of REM sleep is normally accompanied by partial to full penile erection.

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vA8D TIL that the ignition on all Porsches is located on the left side of the wheel. This is because back when Porsche was primarily a racing team, the drive could save a fraction of a second by starting the car with his left hand, while simultaneously switching the car into gear with his right hand.
xV09b TIL cockroach milk is four times as nutritious as cow’s milk.
xVgQ1 TIL: 14 cargo ships got stranded in the Suez Canal during the Six-Day-War in 1967 and weren’t able to leave until 8 years later.
b9Lp TIL the Soviet Tu4 was a reversed-engineered copy of the US B29 bomber. Copied to such detail that every Tu4 had a rivet hole in one wing exactly where an unknown Boeing engineer mistakenly drilled it in the B29 used as a template.
OoJp1 TIL that parts of Russia and Alaska are only separated by 2.5 mi (4.02 km).