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TIL That Samsung makes the Retina Display for Apple

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OoO51 TIL: Research suggests that people who take long naps during the day or sleep 9 or more hours at night may have an increased risk of stroke. Long nappers and long sleepers were 85% more likely to have a stroke. Those with poor sleep quality were 29% more likely to have a stroke.
epyXL TIL Formula one race car driver Alex Zanardi cheated near death three times. In 2001 he had both legs amputated in a racing crash,in 2020 he suffered head trauma while handcycling and was in a medically induced coma, and in 2022 his home caught fire and he was hospitalized for smoke inhalation.
Y7Rdv TIL that Ne Win, dictator of Burma during the Socialist Burma period, was deeply superstitious. In 1987 he banned most banknotes not divisible by nine (his lucky number), wiping out people’s saving overnight and further crippling Burma’s economy.
wLrwo TIL that in 2019, a mammoth tusk hunter found a perfectly preserved 32,000 year-old wolf head
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