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TIL that playing "pink noise" - the sound of uniform static - while sleeping has been found to improve sleep quality and also help memory.

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mxd1R TIL in 1988, Greek cyclist Kanellos Kanellopoulos flew 119 km from Crete to Santorini in an MIT-built aircraft powered only by pedals, paying tribute to the mythical flight of Daedalus and Icarus
bA1p TIL Since 2014, owning a dog in Iran is illegal. If caught owning a dog, violators are subject to 74 lashes
YpP4d TIL before the Mayflower, Squanto was kidnapped, sold into slavery in Spain, and escaped back to North America, only to find his entire tribe wiped out from disease. The site he later helped the Pilgrams settle at was the summer village of his tribe, Plymoth Rock.
Mj9a TIL McDonalds’ added drive-thru in 1975 to accommodate soldiers who were not allowed to get out of their cars while wearing their fatigues.
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