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

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E1DKd TIL the Unisphere, built in Queens, NY for the 1964 World’s Fair, had lights representing the capitals of the nations of the world, including one indicating the location of the Kahnawake Indian Reservation for the Mohawk Indians who helped build the monument.
kYKe TIL that in a comic Han Solo and Chewbacca crashland on Earth,Han is killed,Chewbacca is mistaken for Bigfoot and Hans remains are found by Indiana Jones a 100 years later.
yQBbV TIL about Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, a nun who is one of the two people to first receive a doctorate in computer science and helped invent BASIC
p8Vo4 TIL: the deep ocean is heterogenous and made up of discrete water masses, which can be tracked, measured, and dated; some water masses are up to 1,500 years old!
N7DxQ TIL there is a 1000 years old Japanese poem about the fleetingness of existence, which uses each letter of the Japanese alphabet exactly once. The poem was used as a way to order the alphabet until the Meiji restauration