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TIL that when you sleep in a new environment your brain stays half-awake

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Y7vAW TIL green coloured clothing was rare in Europe up until arsenic-based green dyes were invented in the late-1700s. Before that, to create green the fabric first had to be dyed yellow and then dyed again with an expensive blue dye. Results with this process were inconsistent & hard to control.
kWZE TIL the deadliest sniper in history was a small farmer from Finland named Simo Häyhä, who got over 500 kills in just over 100 days, used no scope, and survived getting shot in the face with an exploding round.
oBwGo TIL that the Gulf Cartel (Cartel Del Golfo) began in the 1930s to smuggle alcohol into Prohibition-era America. They became primarily involved with drug smuggling in the 1980s
NXeM6 TIL that nearly 25% of the world's population is Muslim
0AoR TIL scientists revived 400-year-old frozen mosses recovered from melting glaciers in Canadian Arctic