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TIL Summer on Uranus lasts 47 years, and so does winter

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a4XA TIL that if the Öresund sea between Sweden and Denmark freezes and a Swede walks over the ice to Denmark, Danes are allowed to hit the Swede with sticks.
e0ylD TIL in 1911 there was a baseball team made up of death row inmates who had been told that as long as they kept wining games, their executions would be delayed.
ne1AG TIL This photo of U.S. Army code breakers trained by William Friedman and his wife Elizebeth during WW1 spells out ‘Knowledge is Power.’ By facing either forward or sideways, the soldiers formed a coded phrase utilizing Sir Francis Bacon’s biliteral cipher.
QJYL9 TIL the reason people with ADHD tend to experience sleep-related issues is because we have a different circadian rhythm than neurotypicals. Since society revolves around the 11pm-7am sleep cycle, folks with ADHD are forced to adapt to a foreign sleep schedule and are often more tired because of it.
OGO1R TIL when doing a push up a person is pressing between 69-75% of their total body weight