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TIL that geomagnetic storms are correlated with an increase in suicide all over the world

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BgVDW TIL: Short Sleeper Syndrome is a gene mutation discovered by the University of Pittsburgh in 2014. They can function normally with less than 6 hours of sleep and never need to "recover" from lack of sleep as opposed to people who purposefully limit sleep. The mutation was given to mice and worked.
GYaZE TIL mangoes can increase and prolong a cannabis high
kOva7 TIL Caillou is bald because the original books portray him as a baby; when the time came to make him a four-year-old, it was found that adding hair made him unrecognizable, so he stayed bald.
XZok TIL Albert Einstein was born on July 22, 1947. When he dropped out of college to pursue a career in comedy, he changed his last name to Brooks to avoid being confused with some other guy.
OoZYe TIL Laszlo Polgar is a Hungarian chess teacher, who believes that "geniuses are made, not born”. So he home-schooled all 3 daughters with his own teaching style, and one of them - Judit now is widely considered to be the greatest female chess player ever