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TIL Ted Cruz former presidential candidate was born to a Cuban father and American mother in Calgary, Canada

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0ZD5 TIL in 1964, a high school student in San Diego stayed awake for eleven days, demonstrating that sleep deprivation has little effect, other than the mood changes associated with tiredness. He currently holds the scientifically documented record for the longest period a human has gone without sleep.
woyxP TIL French sailor Narcisse Pelletier was abandoned in 1858 at the age of 14 on the Cape York Peninsula, in Australia. He was discovered and rescued by an Aboriginal family who adopted him and named him Amglo, for the next 17 years, until he was found by the crew of the John Bell in 1875.
4k176 TIL that the Bible contains a second list of laws also referred to as the Ten Commandments. Scholars call it the “Ritual Decalogue” and it includes a law saying that you shouldn’t boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
xX81 TIL That after a rash of unexplained pay phone thefts, Malaysian authorities discovered fisherman were using them as bait.
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