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TIL that when your foot or hand falls asleep it’s because of compressed nerves, not lack of blood flow

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Ayna TIL the word “strike” as in a labor stoppage borrows from the practice of 18th Century British sailors who would strike or lower their ship’s sails and not raise them again until they’d been paid.
wQJ TIL that Glen Bell, the founder of Taco Bell, is a descendent of Dr. Joseph Bell, upon whom Arthur Conan Doyle based the character Sherlock Holmes.
e0xEb TIL "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" was written in 1979 by Robert Hazard. It was written from a male's perspective. In 1983, Cyndi Lauper recorded a version of the song, ironically turning a misogynistic song into one of the most well-known feminist anthems.
LoDZ TIL every episode of Family Guy includes at least one instance of a character saying “What the hell …”
yVZWl TIL there was a hostage crisis at Berkeley , California in 1990s where the accused (who was suffering from a schizophrenic episode) demanded trillions of dollars from the federal government in his bizzare list of demands.