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TIL The USA's National Broadcasting Company (NBC) helped fund a tunnel beneath the Berlin Wall in 1962

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yVbnV TIL that according to a 2019 study that interviewed over 1,000 employed Americans: 80% reported they "habitually" experience work-related dreams with over 50% confirming they've had at least one nightmare about work.
grOrW TIL of a study published in the British Medical Journal in 2018 concluding that parachutes does not reduce risk of death or major injury when jumping from an aircraft. However, participants only jumped from a stationary aircraft on the ground. The trial is meant as a humorous commentary on RCTs.
LQN6r TIL A Canadian Institute of Technology installed sleep pods in its campus library so students can lie down for a proper sleep if they should need it. However staff sit about 15 feet away and nappers are under video surveillance to prevent more than solo sleepers
8aWA8 TIL Coast Guard will NOT attempt to rescue anyone who falls into a specific stretch of water in Romeoville Illinois, Chicago.
1aoND TIL that HIV/AIDS used to be called "the 4H disease" by the CDC since it seemed to affect mostly Homosexuals, Haitians, Heroin users, and hemophiliacs. The disease was also called GRID by the media, which stood for gay- related immune deficiency.