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TIL that surgeons in 2013 discovered a new body part

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78QMM TIL the average American will spend more than 12 full weeks of their life sitting in traffic. 42 hours per year x 48 working years = 12 weeks. (Plus traffic from your non-working years!)
xVAv7 TIL that some of the retired Concordes have a pilot's hat permanently trapped in the cockpit, inserted during the final flight into a gap that opened up at high speed, but closed again as the fuselage cooled.
grxrA TIL about the Halifax Explosion, which occurred in December 1917 when 2 explosive-laden ships collided in the harbor of Halifax, Nova Scotia. 1,782 people were killed and 9,000 injured. At the time, it was the largest man-made explosion in history.
5VeWR TIL "breatharians" have killed several people since the 1980s through starvation / dehydration
xVMGk TIL the reason we can't wake ourselves up by snoring is that a part of our brain makes us expect the snoring before it happens, so we don't get surprised or woken up when it does happen