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TIL the Roanoke colony was never “lost”.

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DYAp TIL people who think they wake up just before their alarm goes off have brain waves showing they were asleep. They may simply be remembering — or not forgetting — the moments just before waking, while forgetting the rest of their sleep.
9mRp TIL of the “Demon Duck of Doom,” an extinct flightless bird that lived in what is now Australia. It stood over 8 ft tall, and had a skull larger than that of some horses. Despite the nickname, it was more closely related to the chicken.
xZ4g TIL: Dumb people are too dumb to know they are dumb. Same with unfunny people.
86xX TIL Kareem Abdul-Jabar, the NBA all-time scoring leader, scored only one 3 pointer in his 20 year NBA career.
awleM TIL Carlos Rodriguez is known as 'The man without a brain'. He survived a car accident while on drugs and made a full recovery with all of his mental abilities and memories intact except for missing an astonishingly large portion of his brain and skull.