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TIL our brains paralyze our muscles while we’re dreaming so we don’t physically act out what we’re doing in our dreams. Fascinating.

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OoEPY TIL of Chick Donohue, a merchant marine who took a bartender’s suggestion and made a daring visit to Vietnam in 1967 as a civilian to deliver beer to his soldier buddies
YpRXZ TIL in 1973 Chippewa chief Adam Fortunate Eagle flew from California to Italy, "discovering" it and claiming it for his tribe on the same basis as Christopher Columbus's claims to Native American lands
7R5M TIL: Henry Ford doubled his workers wages to keep them from walking off the job, not so they could afford to buy his cars.
p86aQ TIL bears in china are caged as cubs and never released, with many kept caged for up to 30 years in a practice called "bile farming"
GNyg TIL that the Lapp people of Arctic Scandinavia would feed reindeer fly agaric mushrooms, wait for them to pee then drink the reindeer pee for the sole purpose of getting high.