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TIL that dolphins sleep with one eye open; the left eye will be closed when the right half of the brain sleeps, and vice versa.This phenomenon is known as "unihemispheric sleep".

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vWXx TIL Creed Bratton from The Office is played by the real life Creed Bratton, former member of the 1960s band The Grass Roots
X0rGj TIL that the Isles of Scilly and the Netherlands were in a bloodless war for 335 years, which officially ended in 1986
wo0o TIL that in the state of Washington, it is a felony to kill a Sasquach
groMX TIL - Dry cleaning is very much a wet process, the liquids they use in the washing machines are just solvents instead of water!
x6BLw TIL after writing the main riff of Seven Nation Army, Jack White planned to save it in case he was ever asked to write a James Bond theme. Deciding this was unlikely to happen, he recorded the song anyways. Five years later, he was asked to write the theme song for the Bond film Quantum of Solace.