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TIL fish don't sleep but most fish do rest by reducing their activity and metabolism while remaining alert to danger.

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epOan TIL according to actor Rick Moranis, in the original script for the 1987 film Spaceballs, the description of Dark Helmet was that the whole costume was one gigantic helmet. Then it got scaled back to just an exaggerated version of the Darth Vader helmet.
ZK6D TIL The Korea Central Zoo in North Korea is home to a Parrot than can squawk ‘Long live the Great Leader, Comrade Kim Il-sung’ in English
4XLZg TIL: 1 Gram of Antimatter costs approximately 62 trillion dollars.
d810Q TIL that a woman named Bridget Cleary was murdered because her husband believed her to be replaced by a faerie .
jDKn TIL during the 1964 Presidential election Fact magazine polled psychiatrists about the mental competence of Barry Goldwater. Goldwater successfully sued and as a result the psychiatric community created the Goldwater rule to prevent them from diagnosing people they haven’t personally examined