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TIL sleeping in a hammock is actually good for you - and your back! (The Hammock Brainwash)

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0byp TIL that Neil deGrasse Tyson has declined every interview since 1993 that has had his racial identity as the premise: “That then becomes the point of people’s understanding of me, rather than the astrophysics. So it’s a failed educational step for that to be the case.”
rRp94 TIL of the Noonday Gun - a daily tradition, that has its roots in the grand ambitions and megalomania of the first Tai-pans of the Jardines-Matheson company
5GMQ TIL that The Sun does not have a definite boundary and the radius is only defined for measurement purposes.
P1lbZ TIL that if you get both triple letters on one word in scrabble, you multiply the score for the word by 9, known as the triple-triple
Ooxy4 TIL Six Georgia inmates out on work detail saved a Deputy Sheriff who collapsed unconscious. They could have taken his gun & fled with the work van but used the Deputy's phone to call 911. The Sheriff's Office gave the men a pizza party with homemade dessert & recommended reduced sentences.