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TIL someone made a font out of gerrymandered congressional districts

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W7b14 TIL most incidents of a patient waking up during surgery (awareness during anesthesia) last for less than 5 minutes. Whereas, in 2008 when Donna Penner woke up during her surgery (unable to talk or move), she proceeded to stay awake (& aware) for 90 minutes despite having received general anesthesia
b4rp TIL The Green Bay Packers are the only community owned, not for profit major franchise in American professional sports
5VlwD TIL Platypuses are biofluorescent with a research study in 2020 finding that they glow bluish-green when exposed to a black light.
LQ0gp TIL of Ye Fei, a Chinese general born in the Philippines who was commander of the PLA during World War 2 and the Chinese Civil War, and went on to serve as Commander in Chief of the Chinese Navy then Governor of Fujian Province, and retained his Philippines citizenship throughout the years.
x6ZX7 TIL the Roman emperor Claudius (10 BC–AD 54) is the last person known to have been able to read the Etruscan language