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TIL the Moon drifts away from Earth at the same speed fingernails grow.

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a1Eb TIL in the 1910s and 20s a young man who dressed fashionably to attract women but didn’t have much else going for him was called a “jellybean”
jNMov There's such a thing as too much sleep, but it's usually a sign of something else.
Br4Ld TIL that there are several species of Flies that have the common name 'coffin fly', because they breed in human corpses with such tenacity, they can even continue living within buried coffins.
ByRe TIL Morphine is named after Morpheus, the Greek God of Sleep.
E1jlX TIL that a church can get molestation insurance. It covers the legal feeds regardless if the allegations are true or false.