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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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yOdM TIL that oats and rye were weeds that evolved to imitate wheat and barley to confuse farmers, and only later were farmed on purpose
nem0o TIL Elvis Presley allied himself with FBI director Edgar Hoover and encouraged him to have John Lennon thrown out of the US
nWeGb TIL that the #1 leading cause of death for a pregnant woman in the United States is homicide.
KZyB TIL The largest ransom ever paid to a single individual was to the Spanish conquistador, Francisco Pizarro, by the Inca Empire before their leader, Atahualpa, the victim, was executed in 1532. The ransom payment of a “roomful of gold” was probably over $2 billion in today’s economic markets.
QJJGd TIL, the Convicted Child Sex Offender Christoper Neil, AKA Mr. Swirl, has been released as of March 26, 2017 and lives in Vancouver, Canada