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TIL a waterfall rivaling Niagara Falls once flowed off the California coast where the Golden Gate Bridge now stands

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YElB TIL That Punk’d was originally called Harassment and aimed at regular people. It was re-tooled after a couple sued for 10 million dollars after a prank with a fake dead body backfired
p8vW8 TIL in the lead up to Midway, the US suspected that a Japanese target called "AF" is Midway. To test this, US Pacific Command instructed Midway to give a signal indicating that they're out of water. The Japanese, immediately signalled that "AF is out of water".
VA0Q TIL ‘I’m sorry to have troubled you chaps’ were James Bond creator Ian Fleming’s last words to the EMTs tending to him during his heart attack.
R0Ja TIL a woman lost her wedding ring, went to the extent of de-tiling her floor to find it. 16 years later while gardening, she pulled a carrot out of the ground and found the ring perfectly around it.
9wNGG TIL there's a protein in our cells called PARP-1 that is constantly repairing damaged DNA our cells. But it can't repair the DNA in neurons (including brains) while we're awake. So it accumulates there until we fall asleep. Research now shows this accumulation of PARP-1 is what makes us sleepy.