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

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4X84b TIL deaf kids in Nicaragua created a completely new sign language out of scratch when placed in deaf schools, after rejecting the sign language the teachers attempted to teach. It is now the official sign language of Nicaragua
Ypvnd TIL an alligator’s sex is determined by the temperature the egg is incubated in and not chromosomes. Eggs incubated at 30 °C (86 °F) or lower produce females; whereas 33 °C (93 °F) or higher produce males.
vJN8 TIL of John “Captain Crunch” Draper, a phone phreak who used a toy whistle from a Cap'n Crunch cereal box to hack into phone lines
BgxLL TIL that some tribes in Ethiopia view pregnant women as "corrupted by evil sprits." When the mothers are about to go into labour, they are sent out into the wilderness alone to deliver their own child in order to purify themselves
NkrE TIL that Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key were originally competing for the one black cast member slot on MADtv, but were both chosen due to their chemistry.