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TIL all men WILL develop prostate cancer if they live long enough

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LbR0 TIL that a solid 8 hour sleep is actually unnatural to us as a species. A 4 hour sleep, waking for 1-2 hours, followed by another 4 hour sleep is how we slept for the majority of evolution. The change to a solid 8 hour sleep was originally attributed to improvements in lighting and other things.
W6Ko TIL that Colorado and Washington are the two least religious states in the country.
KOZe4 TIL: During the Siege of Leningrad, when hundreds of thousands starved, the authorities distinguished between two legal categories of cannibalism, those who murdered someone in order to eat them, and those who ate of a corpse that was already dead.
Oo0ae TIL that in 1998, the face of Jesus Christ appeared on the side of a grocery store in South America and attracted hundreds of worshippers. A rainstorm revealed that the visage was nothing more than a poster of Willie Nelson that had been painted over.
Dl8p TIL the original ‘Gone in 60 Seconds’ has the longest car chase in movie history at 40 minutes and wrecked and destroyed 93 cars in the process