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TIL that when throwing punches in a dream, your punches appear to be incredibly weak due to your brain’s inability to imitate the effect it has in real life.

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nybP TIL Mitsubishi own around 40% of the world’s bluefin tuna market and apparently has a huge reserve of frozen tuna they’re sitting on for when they go extinct.
Z8XrD TIL that standard QWERTY keyboards are used in China. Chinese users are familiar with the sounds that Latin letters make, and they type in the way their characters sound when spoken out loud. Software then translates the sound they typed into a Chinese character.
W7MDN TIL that around 109 billion humans have lived and died over the last 192,000 years, according to demographers from the Population Reference Bureau
lomBV TIL of "Psychogenic death" - when a person gives up on life mentally and dies usually within days. The phenomenon occurs when someone experiences a trauma they feel they cannot escape, and the person views death as their only option.
kWVg TIL: Lacoste’s signature crocodile was the first designer logo in history. Also, he invented the tennis polo shirt & split-shaft steel racket.