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TIL people who go to bed late are likely to be more intelligent than those who go to bed early

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MeB9V TIL Ken Osmond was not the original Eddie Haskell. The original was another child actor whose parents wanted him to go to high school and college instead of being a full-time child actor. Ironically Osmond grew up to be a cop while the original still enjoys a lucrative career in show business.
9wlNX TIL Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow regions in the atmosphere, like rivers in the sky, that transport massive amounts of water vapor from of the tropics roughly equivalent to the average flow of water at the mouth of the Mississippi River. They can unleash heavy rain and cause severe flooding.
YpMrx TIL Martin Luther King criticized the FBI for failing to enforce civil rights law in the south. In retaliation he was sent a letter from the FBI calling him a fraud and asking him to kill himself.
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oR7P8 TIL Bill Watterson used to sneak signed Calvin & Hobbes collections onto the shelves of his hometown bookstore, but stopped doing so when he discovered they were being sold online for high prices.