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TIL that having your alarm go off more than once in the morning doesn’t “slowly wake you up”, but actually makes it harder by causing you to restart the deep sleep cycle over and over again each time you hit snooze

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OGAg4 TIL a woman drowned in a Massachusetts public pool, but her body was not found until two and a half days later. Lifeguards were alerted right after she drowned, but they took no action. Health inspectors even inspected the pool while the woman lay dead at the bottom, but failed to find her corpse.
PwlE TIL in 1998, the USS Yorktown lost all propulsion power and had to be towed back to Norfolk Base when a computer attempted to divide by 0, causing a database to overflow.
4X6eX TIL The Albuquerque Isotopes (a minor league affiliate of the Colorado Rockies) named themselves after an episode of The Simpsons in which Homer finds out the Springfield Isotopes were moving to Albuquerque.
KODx4 TIL Bobby Leach, the 2nd person to go over Niagara falls in a barrel and survive, spent six months in the hospital recovering from his injuries. He traveled the world recounting his ordeal in vaudeville shows. Years later he slipped on an orange peel, injured his leg, and died from complications
rRobx TIL of "geek shows," a popular act in early America travelling carnivals and circuses. A "geek," would chase live chickens, biting the chickens' heads off and swallowing them. It was a matter of pride among circus and carnival professionals not to have traveled with a troupe that included geeks.