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TIL Whenever we sleep in unfamiliar surroundings, only half your brain is getting a good night's rest while the other half stands guard.

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78lnM TIL Michael Caine legally changed his name to Michael Caine to help get through airport security quicker. He would have to waste a lot of time proving that his legal name was Maurice Joseph Micklewhite.
4Xe4X TIL of a woman known as Patient S.M, who has no amygdala, which is the part of the brain responsible for fear. As a result she is unable to feel fear or read negative social cues, and doesn't understand personal space. The only time she ever felt fear is when a test was held replicating suffocation.
PO4G TIL during World War II, Polish doctors Stanislaw Matulewicz and Eugeniusz Lazowski infected Jews with a microbe Proteus OX19, which exhibits symptoms of typhus, which lead Nazi doctors to quarantine and stop deportations in fear of infecting Nazi troops, thus saving thousands of lives.
pa4p TIL Nong Yousui from Dahua, China has eyes that can see in pitch black
0PAy TIL that in 2007, an elderly man visited Auschwitz and recognized his father as one of the SS officers.