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TIL physicists at Michigan Technological University came up with a practical methodology for finding time travelers through the internet

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Ypnlv TIL The bottlenose dolphin sleeps by shutting down half its brain along with the opposite eye. The other half remains awake at a low level of alertness to watch for predators and to surface to breath. After about two hours it reverses the process so the other half can rest.
0dGky TIL: That Sir Dickson Poon was married to actress Michelle Yeoh, was knighted for his service to business and charity, and also has the best name ever.
GY0aE TIL that Hershey’s kisses got their name due to the smooching sound the machine made while extruding the chocolates into a conveyor belt
aAQM TIL that famed aviator, Charles Lindbergh, once recieved a Nazi medal, and that when speaking of him, Roosevelt remarked that “if I should die tomorrow, I want you to know this, I am absolutely convinced Lindbergh is a Nazi.”
Y44A TIL of the Ittan-Momen: a “roll of cotton” that, in Japanese folklore, becomes alive and self-aware once reaching 100 years old. It “flies through the air at night” and “attacks humans, often by wrapping around their faces to smother them.”