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TIL that sleeping on your side increases facial wrinkles that are perpendicular to expression based wrinkles.

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nWxKW TIL about Kirk Allen, a senior member of the U.S. military who believed a series of popular sci-fi novels, in which he shared the protagonist's name, were his biography. He created full-color maps, sketches, and written stories, to fill in omitted details from his own recollection.
MlXV TIL Archaeologists believe that 900 years ago, Native Americans in Southern Illinois built an entire village and filled it with sacrificial offerings with the sole intention of burning it to the ground as part of a religious ritual.
1ava8 TIL Switzerland is the only country in the world which could fit 114% of its population into bunkers in case of an emergency
9wlPD TIL that in 1948 that thousands of comic books were burned due to the thoughts of Dr. Fredric Wertham who saw a correlation between delinquents and reading comic books.
vQVB TIL that when the US navy banned alcohol on ships in July 1914, they held one last massive party and invited ships from several nations to help drink the last of the booze. Many of the participants in the party would become enemies weeks later when WWI broke out.