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TIL that 35% of British adults sleep with a stuffed bear toy.

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xVkNo TIL that when people faint at the sight of blood, it's because their body is actually trying to calm them down because they're overly-excited. It overshoots and the person passes out. It's called vasovagal syncope.
l7Y45 TIL the band Counting Crows got its name from "One for Sorrow", a British divination nursery rhyme about the superstitious counting of magpies, which are members of the crow family. Singer Adam Duritz heard the rhyme in the 1989 film Signs of Life, which starred his friend Mary-Louise Parker.
Oog54 TIL Al Capone came up with the idea of expiration dates on milk bottles while trying to find a legal way to fund his grand lifestyle once the prohibition era was over.
6bdW TIL since Ronald Reagan, each outgoing United States president has left a private message on the Oval Office desk for the incoming president on Inauguration Day.
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