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TIL that sleep allows the brain’s synapses to be optimized to prevent your brain from growing too big

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1a67 TIL - Ulysses S. Grant considered the Civil War God’s punishment for what the United States did to Mexico in the Mexican-American war
dDKQ TIL a hawk can have 20/2 vision. This means that a hawk can see an object 20 feet (6 meters) away that a human could only see from a distance of two feet (0.6 meters).
5aQ9 TIL that as of this month, “Hampster Dance”, one of the first Internet memes, turns 18 years old.
Y7mBP TIL that the story of Popeye eating spinach due to a misplaced decimal point over reporting its iron content is a myth. The correct iron value was already well known and nowhere did Popeye mention eating spinach because of its iron content.
Oomga TIL that koala fingerprints are nearly identical to human's and could taint crime scenes