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TIL Stilton cheese cannot be legally produced in the village of Stilton.

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Brjvr TIL that when Glacier National Park, Montana, was named the around 80 glaciers in the park made the name an obvious choice. Today there are fewer than 30 glaciers left. With the number getting smaller and smaller.
loa11 TIl about the Giant Golden-Crowned Flying Fox. An endangered species of bat found in the Philippines that has a wing span of 5.58 feet and grow as big as a human child.
rNOj0 TIL The feeling of falling while you're asleep happens because your muscles become very relaxed and enter into temporary paralysis. The brain misinterprets this as falling and sends signals to your muscles to jerk upright which leads you to startle awake.
6Ewa7 TIL: An interesting yet unexplained phenomenon is that men have erections while dreaming (REM sleep), even when the dream is void of salacious content. The ancient cultures that believed soul flies away during dreams, typically depict dreaming by an erection and a bird flying away from the body.
oYPA TIL there’s a way to highly exaggerate microscopic vibrations on surfaces from any video, allowing you to see things like blood pulses in the face, sound affects on glass and even recreate the sounds that caused the vibrations.