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TIL that chinstrap penguins take more than 10,000 micro-naps a day, lasting an average of 4 seconds, for a total of more than 11 hours of daily sleep.

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W7jjN TIL that the town of Chevy Chase, Maryland wasn't named after the actor, or vice versa. Both were named after an English historical ballad about a war that took place on the border between England and Scotland.
GAvo4 TIL 5 European divers were swept away from their dive boat by the current during a dive off the coast of Indonesia near Komodo National Park. Adrift at sea for 9 hrs, they managed to swim 25 miles to Rinca island & had to fight off a Komodo dragon with rocks during their 2 nights there before rescue
MeQ8K TIL 'Angel' by Sarah McLachlan (the song famously used for the ASPCA animal cruelty PSA's) is actually about the fatal overdose of Smashing Pumpkins keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin.
N5b6 TIL that during the thunderous applause following his famous ‘We shall fight on the beaches’ speech to the to the House of Commons in 1940, Winston Churchill whispered to a colleague, “And we’ll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that’s bloody well all we’ve got!”.
78prb TIL the Rolling Stones were the first to record the Lennon–McCartney song I Wanna Be Your Man as their first top 20 single in the UK