› added 8 years ago

158

TIL that in a baby’s first year, parents lose around 350 hours of sleep at night.

Read more consumer.healthday.com

via reddit.com

X0D98 TIL Teddy Roosevelt's 2nd son Kermit Roosevelt joined his father's Amazon expedition and had a river named after him, resigned from US Army in 1917 to join the British Forces to fight in WWI. To join the first fight in Finland/Norway, he took help of Churchill to secure a commission in British Army.
Y70Qr TIL that George Lucas named the planet Tatooine after the region of Tunisia where he filmed those scenes - Tataouine.
xV50w TIL Italy fined Apple and Samsung €10m and €3m respectively for releasing software updates which deliberately slowed down their phones, thus encouraging new purchases
ab0o TIL Viagra has an unintended side effect of helping the spleen filter out malaria
Bgwyx TIL 'microfishing' is a hobby where people catch tiny fish using tiny hooks, take a picture of them, then let them go. The idea is to see how many different species you can catch