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TIL We Used To Sleep In Two Segments Every Night Until Electricity Was Invented

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YpdE7 TIL that Toyota built a monster truck version of its Sienna minivan and dubbed it a UUV (Ultimate Utility Vehicle).
A7XB TIL a 2005 FX docudrama (“Oil Storm”) portended a major hurricane hitting New Orleans causing citizens to take refugee in the Superdome and a resulting national increase in gas price… A scant three months before Katrina.
d8jK9 TIL U.S. military dogs have ranks, and usually outrank their handlers out of respect and military custom
gMrp7 TIL that gladiators in Ancient Rome used to carry product placements out in the arena; This was present in an early script for Gladiator (2000), but was removed out of fears that it would be viewed as anachronistic
nMwr TIL that a Pennsylvania man survived 12 hours laying frozen by the side of the road in subzero temperatures because the low temperatures preserved his brain and other organ functions.