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TIL that the founder of Chevrolet was swiss

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Oopp7 TIL that ants sleep but not in the sense we understand sleep. Research into sleep patterns of insects showed that ants have a cyclical pattern of resting periods which each nest as a group observes, lasting around eight minutes in any 12-hour period.
vRyB TIL rats are capable of laughing.
8aj8G TIL that in the original "Wayne's World" script, the T-1000 simply told Wayne "you're speeding". The line was changed at the last second when a producer's son said it wasn't funny.
8aGV4 TIL that even the typographer who designed Comic Sans only used it once, and that was to send a letter to Sky for his broadband problem.
n8vY TIL that there is about 2 times as many people of Scottish ancestry living in the United States and Canada compared to Scotland.