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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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dDQY8 TIL that in 1896, an inventor came up with the idea of a coffin that would pass current through someone’s body once they laid down in it and rested their head on a switch. The device was intended to allow the suicide to be formally buried immediately afterwards.
AZox TIL if you buy a Bugatti Veyron for yourself in India you also have to purchase one for the government. (Total cost of $3.65 million)
woyPE TIL when Led Zeppelin reunited in 2007 for a one-off show at the O2 Arena, 20 million ticket requests were made, the record for a single music concert.
DNZg TIL Composer Sergei Prokofiev lived near Red Square and died the day Stalin’s death was announced, and it was impossible to carry his body out for 3 days due to the crowds. His death was mentioned on page 116 of the leading Russian musical publication, with the first 115 devoted to Stalin.
xVyb1 TIL that in Japan there are trains that bark like dogs to scare deer that come to lick the rails to get iron