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

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nelYG TIL that a contractor won a tender to rebuild part of the MacArthur Maze interchange in San Francisco with a bid of just over $876,000 - about a third of the projected cost. By completing the rebuild more than a month ahead of schedule, the contractor pocketed a $5 million bonus.
4X1n5 TIL Quasar P352-15, is known as the brightest object in the Universe. At a distance of 13 Billion Light-Years Away, this quasar comes from a time when our Universe was only 7% its current age.
E1DrX TIL one of the oldest statues in Bern, Switzerland is of a guy eating babies, and nobody really knows why it’s there.
b9D4N TIL there's a near perfectly preserved 17th Century Swedish galleon in a Stockholm museum
YpbeA TIL Jeff Bezos’ team tried to keep him and his estranged wife, Mackenzie, together with a $12,500-a-week intensive therapy retreat in Maui, Hawaii. Friends wanted the Amazon boss to agree to a 30-day physical separation from Sanchez, and encouraged Jeff and MacKenzie to undergo couples therapy.