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TIL humans use blankets during sleep because we revert to lizard biothermic characteristics during REM sleep.

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LV1Q TIL Anneliese Michel was subjected to 10 months of bi-weekly exorcisms. She eventually died from malnutrition and dehydration, weighing only 68 pounds. Her story was the basis for the movie “The Exorcism of Emily Rose.”
LQXGv TIL that the inspiration for Billy Elliot was an opera singer, Thomas Allen, not a dancer
WRad TIL the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the WHO, the U.K. Royal Society, the French Academy of Sciences, and the EC have all concluded that GMO crops pose NO risk to human health. No case of human illness or allergy has ever been directly attributed to genetically modified crops.
9Ykwp TIL the organisers of the 2012 London Olympics contacted The Whos manager Bill Curbishley to see if drummer Keith Moon was available to play at the opening ceremony, despite Moon being dead for 34 years at the time.
97VM TIL in 1866, the State of Mississippi spent more than half its yearly budget providing Civil War veterans with prosthetics