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TIL: Regularly occurring bouts of retinal movements suggest an REM sleep–like state in jumping spiders | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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m8ME TIL a proton was detected traveling at 0.9999999999999999999999951c, with the kinetic energy of a thrown baseball. It was dubbed the ‘Oh-My-God Particle’
WkDaA TIL that Japanese is either written vertically from top to bottom, or horizontally from left to right, or horizontally from RIGHT to left! Sometimes, both vertical and horizontal writing can be found on the same page.
GYwa4 TIL that "The University of Oklahoma football program began in 1895, 12 years before statehood."
lwNA TIL Country singer Marty Robbins loved NASCAR and even raced his own car. Once, he stunned everyone by running 15 mph faster than his qualifying lap. When NASCAR tried to award him, he rejected it, stating he knocked the restrictors out as he “wanted to see what it was like to run up front for once”
nGGr TIL Real-time (to the day) drug use in urban areas can be monitored through sampling the sewage.