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TIL of Kleine-Levin Syndrome, which can cause a person to sleep for very long periods

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ep7a4 TIL that one of the oldest national anthems, the Spanish National Anthem Marcha Real, has no official lyrics at all. It's just the music. And while it is played people just hum "na na na" to the music.
VM1Om TIL I learned that a group of people from Iran actually tried to break the record for the biggest sandwich, but they failed due to eating the sandwich before the GWR team was able to measure it.
JmA8 TIL For nearly four months in 1947 Howard Hughes sat fixated in a chair, often naked, continually watching movies.
GYAw5 TIL: The NHS in the UK had only one man registered as a rectal teaching assistant, offering his anus to be examined by trainee doctors. TIAL: He has lost his job to a robot anus.
awjpZ TIL of catastrophism, a 19th century geological school of thought which saw the large fossil record as evidence proving the existence of a world previous to ours, destroyed by sudden natural catastrophes such as great floods and the rapid formation of major mountain chains.