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TIL that sleep deprivation causes the brain to become incapable of putting an emotional event into the proper perspective and incapable of making a controlled, suitable response to the event.

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OoOB4 TIL that David Blair was originally assigned as the Second Officer on the Titanic, but due to a change just before the sailing, was not on the crew. In his quick departure, he accidentally kept a key to a locker containing binoculars, thus preventing the crew from using them to help spot icebergs.
VBrQ TIL there is a company that will anonymously mail shit (yes, actual shit) to your enemies.
oRZgK TIL - That the US has 34 metric tons of plutonium bomb cores left over from the Cold War that are being kept at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas.
0wpMA TIL NASA took Nefertiti the jumping Porscha spider to the ISS to see if she could learn to hunt in zero gravity. She did, and when she returned to earth 110 days later, she successfully retrained her jumps again for 1 g.
AD9Kg TIL an undercover officer was led on a chase of a suspicious person. A CCTV officer used cameras to tell him where the suspect was at throughout the chase. After 20 minutes they discovered that the "suspect" was actually the undercover officer chasing himself at the direction of the CCTV officer.