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TIL of a town in Kazakhstan, residents of which suffer from an unkown anomaly: they fall asleep in broad daylight and suffer from hallucinations, dizziness, weakness and memory loss. Scientists call is a ‘sleep epidemic’ and can’t explain the reasons for this phenomenon.

R7ep1 TIL credit cards were first "used" over 5000 years ago on clay tablets.
wLJ0W TIL around 10% of the population of Canada were infected by the 2009 Swine Flu
oBR77 TIL Twitter's logo is comprised of circles.
786nr TIL the words “testify” and “testicle” come from the same root
D1xPV TIL 71% of 17-24-year-olds in the U.S. don't qualify for military service.