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TIL 1-3% of people are equipped with a mutated gene called hDEC2 which allows their body to get the rest it requires from just a few hours of sleep.

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WkADN TIL over 300,000 of the 16 million Americans who served during World War II are still alive as of 2020
6aGJ TIL at the 2:58 mark in Hey Jude, you can hear Paul McCartney say “fucking hell” after making a mistake on the piano. The band thought it was so funny that they decided to keep it in the song.
jNK0M TIL that there were two AI chatbots created by Facebook to talk to each other, but they were shut down after they started communicating in a language they made for themselves.
4XBG5 Til about the Harlequin Shrimps monstrous eating habits! This species of shrimp feed exclusively on star fish and will form gangs to subdue the starfish and devour a leg or two. They have also been observed feeding the starfish to keep it alive, therefore growing back its limbs to be eaten again!!
nera9 TIL In 1942, while stranded in enemy waters, the Dutch warship HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen evaded detection by the Japanese and escaped to Australia while disguised as a tropical island.