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TIL: That sleeping on your stomach can induce weirder, scarier, and sexier dreams

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4XdMo TIL that nearly half of all Vietnamese people have the same last name, making it almost impossible to trace an individual's heritage further than one or two generations
lo5bA TIL Titanic crew member William Murdoch who was portrayed as shooting a passenger and then commiting suicide in the movie, was in fact last seen trying to fill as many life boats as possible and heroically went down with the ship.
gnND TIL that the Nagasaki nuclear bomb was worth $25b (Today’s money). At 70k death toll, that’s one third of a million dollars per death.
grZwW TIL Although pandas rarely attack humans, attacks can be severe. There have been three separate panda attacks on humans at the zoo in Beijing. The humans were critically injured and had their body parts almost bitten off.
Oobbg TIL donating a pint of blood is equivalent to donating a chocolate bar calorie-wise, mainly from the regeneration of 2 TRILLION red blood cells in bone marrow at a rate of 2 million/sec.