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TIL that yawning and stretching at the same time is called "pandiculation." It's apparently very important in waking up our nervous system.

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wLXx7 TIL that the U.S. lets 141 trillion calories of food go to waste each year
xVj8b TIL in 1969 Penn State student Betsy Aardsma was doing research in the campus library when she was stabbed in the chest. Because the wound was so small and the fact that she was wearing a red dress, paramedics thought that she had a seizure before she died. The case is still unsolved.
GA10Q TIL that Sojourner Truth's first language was Dutch and she retained a hint of a Dutch accent her entire life
dD5xK TIL that adults who played Pokémon video games extensively as children have a brain region that responds preferentially to images of each Pokémon. Stanford researchers identified the brain region activated by Pokémon characters.
AdM7 TIL in 2014, a 5 year old boy found a security exploit to bypass the account restrictions on the Xbox One by hitting the space bar a bunch of times.