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TIL due to the hormones leptin and ghrelin, your body literally can't tell the difference between hungry and tired.

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GAvP1 TIL the 1916 and 1968 presidential elections are the only times where the winner lost both their home state and their running mate's state.
ZNJR TIL: Theres a delusion known as Truman Syndrome, is a type of persecutory delusion in which people believe their lives are staged plays, reality television shows, or are being watched on cameras in general.
xvbB TIL a 24 year old made it to #5 on his national charts with a song recorded on a four-track in his bedroom. He opened for Blur the same year, and then died six months later.
x6bG0 TIL that the coco de mer, a palm tree species found in the Seychelles archipelago, was believed in legend to have sex on stormy nights, due to the male trees' catkins looking like penises and females' fruits looking like butts. The legend states those who see the trees screwing will go blind.
neXK7 TIL in 1943, Stanisława Leszczyńska, a Polish Catholic and professional midwife, was arrested by the Gestapo for aiding Jews. Sent to Auschwitz, she was assigned to work at the camp’s “maternity ward” and spent the remainder of the war delivering three thousand babies in unthinkable conditions