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TIL There’s a name for jolting awake as you fall asleep, it’s called a “hypnic jerk” and it’s caused by a tussle between different parts of your brain.

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nWB4b TIL from 1970 to 2015, The Sun published a picture of a topless female model on its page 3
LkyO0 TIL P.T. Barnum purchased a female slave in 1835 that he billed in a sideshow attraction as the slave that raised George Washington, this would have made her about 160 years old
VjnG TIL that in 2010, a drunk Serbian man on vacation in Egypt became a local hero after he did a cannonball into the ocean and inadvertently killed a Hammerhead shark that had been terrorizing people for weeks.
Y7Xb7 TIL Vertus Hardiman, who at age 5 in 1928 was subject to radiation experiments disguised as a new ringworm treatment. He lived 80 years suffering necrosis of his skull, hidden under hats and wigs.
WO64 TIL A woman made great contributions to Egyptology after hitting her head as a toddler and claiming to have unlocked a past life as a priestess in Ancient Egypt.