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TIL Cats sleep 70% of their lifetime. we humans only sleep 30%

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N7N1J TIL that in the 70s, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, tried creating its own artificial coral reef by dumping some 2 million used tires into the ocean. It became an environmental disaster, naturally, but also a military training exercise when divers had to retrieve the tires (almost one by one).
wLVy7 TIL ‘Die Hard’ is based on a novel that, itself, was a sequel to another book. The first story was made into a Frank Sinatra film which meant the producers had to first contractually offer the starring role to Sinatra, who was in his 70’s.
byKE TIL Saving Private Ryan depicted combat so realistically that veterans left theaters during the opening scene, stating that it was the the most realistic depiction of combat they had ever seen.
M6nm TIL Soviet NKVD (KGB) chief Genrikh Yagoda was arrested and shot in 1938. His successor, Nikolai Yezhov, was arrested and shot in 1940. His successor, Lavrentiy Beria, was arrested and shot in 1953.
oBeMK TIL the author of Peter Pan gifted his rights to the story to a children’s hospital in 1929, which has benefited to this day.