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TIL that every year in Madrid, Spain, a sleeping contest is held. Contestants’ pulse are measured throughout the contest and whoever manages to sleep the most out of the 20 minutes duration wins the event.

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OAj7 TIL In 2004 a police officer pulled over a woman in California and masterbated on her. Despite DNA evidence he was found not guilty after his attorney was able to successfully argue the woman was asking for it because she worked as stripper.
vPVK8 TIL that after a farm accident the dying farmer scratched his last will and testament onto a tractor fender, the tractor he was pinned under, and that fender was removed and submitted to the courts and ultimately found to be a valid will.
E1Vyx TIL: During the earliest period of Earth's existence, the Hadean Period, 4.6-4.0 billion years ago, the surface temperature was over 200°C but there were still liquid-water oceans because the atmospheric pressure was 27 times as strong as it is now, significantly raising the boiling point of water.
8aAr4 TIL Frank Lloyd Wright designed a gas station that was opened in 1958, one year before his death. It was the only gas station he designed. It is in Cloquet, MN and is still in service to this day.
RJ4a TIL when scientists first realized that American gay men and Africans in France were both suffering from the same disease (AIDS), French researchers sent over a sample to be tested. But a scientist with a grudge against the French institute switched out the sample, setting research back years.