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TIL that the ‘falling sensation’ and jerk reflex felt before sleep may go back to our ancestors having to re-adjust themselves when sleeping in trees, so they didn’t fall out.

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VRAp TIL By the time the last mammoth became extinct, the Great Pyramid of Giza was over 1000 years old.
KOko9 TIL American Blood Banks, Including non-profit ones. Actually sell the donated blood to the highest bidder inside and outside of the USA.
epe95 TIL the government can take your land for public use in pretty much every country
b9N TIL that, as a way to detect nighttime predators, many species of animals (ducks, dolphins, whales, iguanas) will sleep with one eye open. One hemisphere of their brain is asleep while the other one is awake.
OQGR TIL a naked man in California was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon.