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TIL that Stephen Colbert is a Sunday school teacher
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MekmA
TIL that a young Irishman threw a message in a bottle from the sinking Titanic. He drowned. A year later, the bottle washed up on a beach — just a few miles from his mother’s home in Ireland.
GAGP5
TIL with approximately 1 in 3 adults in the US not getting enough sleep, insomnia is a common health problem. In addition, a 2023 study found that people who suffer from insomnia were 69% more likely to have a heart attack compared to those who didn't.
Z84Y4
TIL dogs are prosocial, meaning that they volunteer to help or share with others, even when there might not directly be any benefit to themselves.
4kVEg
TIL Sweden had a colony in the Americas. "New Sweden" straddling modern-days Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware
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TIL the Norse explorers of America described a native "warsling" that would fling sheep sized projectiles at enemies. Centuries later, linguists discovered the Algonkin people had an oral tradition of the same weapon their ancestors used to destroy ships.