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TiL that the brain literally eats itself when it doesn't receive enough sleep

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awXPN TIL The first toilet paper factory in the USSR was built in 1969, 8 years after they went to space.
b6Ml7 TIL the 1965 Spiegelman's Monster experiment demonstrated genetic replication and evolution in real-time at the molecular level, showing how natural selection could drive the emergence of more efficient genetic replication, even in an artificial setting.
D1OyY TIL about the volcano that created Bermuda is unlike any on Earth. Also that Bermuda was created by a volcano.
gr9Wy TIL that Reverend Martin Luther of The Protestant Reformation regarded the Pope as the Antichrist from the Book of Revelations.
W7ErY TIL about Ponte City, a 55 story circular apartment building in Johannesburg, South Africa. Built in 1975, in the 80s gang activity made the area very unsafe and garbage thrown into the open core reached 5 stories high. It has since been restored and is once again a desirable place to live.