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TIL an Albatross (bird) can sleep while flying to avoid predators such as whales and sharks.

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gY09 TIL of Robert Smalls, a seaman-slave during the American Civil War who stole a warship when the Confederate sailors went whoring and sailed himself and his family to freedom. Then fought for the Union. Then became a successful businessman and bought his former masters house.
1W44 TIL that 3 marathon runners ran across the entire Sahara - that’s an equivalent of 2 marathons/day for 111 days, totaling approximately 4,000 miles! They started at the Atlantic Ocean in Senegal and ended at the Red Sea in Cairo.
X0wZP TIL the first text message was “Merry Christmas!”
xV8bk TIL The International Chopin Piano Competition has been held every five years since 1955. It is one of the few competitions devoted entirely to the works of a single composer
w4PW TIL that the Sun loses around 4 million tons of mass per second due to fusion