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TIL Brown bats, with 20 hours of sleep, sleep the most of any animal. Giraffes can go for weeks without napping, needing 30 minutes to fully recharge.

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0wLjR TIL about Tidal locking when rotation and translation takes the same time. For example, the same side of the Moon always faces the Earth. And almost all bodies will eventually be tidal locked.
yQr0a TIL in 1990 Marvel published a comic where the Hulk threw Hulk Hogan through a roof for "picking the wrong name"
lDyr TIL of a man from Poland who was admitted to the hospital after a car accident with a BAC of 1.480%. Believing their equipment was faulty, doctors tested him 5 more time with the same result each time. The man died a few days later due to his injuries from the accident, rather than his BAC.
ErRo TIL In 1999 Mike Judge got a thank-you letter from a Columbine survivor who credited “Wings of the Dope” with making her realize it was okay to grieve the boy she never got to tell she loved - even though he was one of the shooters.
p8WJN TIL that one can die from laughter. Chrysippus of Soli, a Greek stoic philosopher is said to have died this way at the age of 73. As he watched a donkey eat some figs he died in a fit of laughter.