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TIL sign-language users have been known to sign in their sleep.

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X0VWj TIL The Sun is made of Plasma
BgooW TIL about anting. Birds will lay on large amounts of insects, primarily ants, and allow them to crawl all over their feathers and skin. The ants emit formic acid which helps prevent infection and deter parasites.
lokQG TIL: While it takes 8+ minutes for a photon to travel from the sun to the earth, for the photon it leaves the sun and arrives at the earth in the same instant. Things that travel at the speed of light do not experience time.
jAvv TIL after WWII, the Department of War was renamed Department of Defense
P196O TIL there are people in France who have actually done time in jail for stealing garden gnomes in the name of The Garden Gnome Liberation Front