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TIL Space Jam is the highest grossing basketball film ever made

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gMJo7 TIL it's possible for complex communications with someone who is dreaming. Researchers of one study found two-way communications during REM sleep is possible when study participants (having confirmed lucid dreams) answered questions correctly via eye movement - even solving simple math equations.
OGX4a TIL Birds have thumbs (that assist with the landing process)
Yp7l7 TIL Sony sold its waterproof Walkman in a bottle of water to prove it was really waterproof
6E8WZ TIL that a bakers dozen is comprised of 13 because in medieval England there were laws that related the price of bread to the price of the wheat used to make it. Bakers caught cheating customers by overpricing undersized loaves were punished. For fear of coming up short, they would throw in extra.
p8Lvb TIL there used to be so many oysters in the Chesapeake Bay that they piled up almost to the water's surface, causing navigational hazards. Then we harvested them by the millions, and now the population is down by 99.7%. It's one of "the largest documented declines of a marine species"