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TIL it only takes the average person 10-20 minutes to fall asleep

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Oore4 TIL in 1991 it was discovered that the heart has its "little brain" or "intrinsic cardiac nervous system." This "heart brain" is composed of approximately 40,000 neurons that are alike neurons in the brain, meaning that the heart has its own nervous system.
0wg1v TIL when the husband of Cassandra Harris (Lisl in For Your Eyes Only) visited the set one day, producer Cubby Broccoli took such a liking to him that he thought he would be a perfect choice to play James Bond. That man was Pierce Brosnan, who made his Bond debut over a decade later.
lplK TIL: Women are the majority of human traffickers in almost a third of the 155 nations the U.N. surveyed. They accounted for more than 60% of the human trafficking convictions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
N4G8 TIL its possible to scramble an egg while its still in the shell, thus creating a golden egg!
jNkMn TIL the "MyPillow" guy was addicted to crack cocaine before finding sobriety and becoming a multimillionaire