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TIL that depression can cause you to dream up to 3-4 times more than normal…

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D5LV TIL there must always be a cyclone somewhere on Earth
BgWDK TIL that the song "Istanbul (not Constantinople)", famously sung by The Four Lads in 1953 and They Might Be Giants in 1990, was written to mark the 500th anniversary of the city's titular name change.
e0ZaE TIL Research on Ants with barcode tags shows that Ants take sick days. When some members of the colony are exposed to pathogens, they spend less time in the nest.
mx1nR TIL that when Charles Manson was a child, his mom sold him for a pitcher of beer to a woman who wanted to have children.
ADMVd TIL There was a racial underpinning to the German-Japanese alliance during WWII. The Nazis, from Hitler on down, actually viewed the history of the Japanese people as 'superior' to the German.