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TIL that Sleep loss causes social withdrawal and loneliness

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grjwW TIL that the ideal biblical woman is both a homemaker who gets up early to cook and care for her family, and a successful businesswoman who buys land, turns it into a vineyard, and sells homemade clothes ensuring her family is never poor.
P1kkL TIL the McLaren F1 is so valuable now, that it is essentially impossible for one to be "written off" by an insurance company, since the repair costs will always be less than the value of the car. Furthermore, McLaren will fully repair a crashed F1, no matter how substantial the damage.
rRZRy TIL that during the Prague Uprising at the end of WWII, two escaped British POWs approached a garrison of Waffen-SS and claimed to represent a regiment of paratroopers and threatened to call in an airstrike on the building they occupied. The Germans surrendered.
KOV89 TIL that Charlie Sheen launched a children’s clothing line called “Sheen Kidz” in 2006.
GN94 TIL The asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs was powerful enough to send Earth rocks to Mars and even Europa. As a result, if we ever find life on those worlds it may actually have originated on our own planet.