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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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Brajb TIL that people sentenced to death by beheading were advised to give the headsman a gold coin to ensure he did not botch the beheading and cause a painful death by multiple strokes
Wko6Y TIL that Calgary, Canada has the longest urban cycling / walking path network in the world, at over 1000km.
DQ0KV TIL A large number of fossil records showed evidence of human-inflicted wounds on ancient pandas, indicating that pandas were brutally slashed to death by prehistoric man
RB4 TIL that Dr. Ruth, America’s leading sex psychologist, is a trained sniper.
EjW7 TIL before wolves evolved into dogs, they worked together with humans hunting game. Wolves were superior trackers but humans superior killers, so wolves would lead humans to prey and would get some of the meat as reward.