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TIL that A man survived for 40 years without sleeping.

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dDm8B TIL the last elementary particle that we know to exist was discovered in 2012 at the CERN in Switzerland, using the Large Hadron Collider. It's called the Higgs boson and it's the particle responsible for "assigning" a mass to other elementary particles.
16kXd TIL Sub-Saharan Africans trace up to 19% of their genetic ancestry to an extinct hominin species that is NOT found in the DNA of present-day Asians or Caucasians.
WG04 TIL - Ginger Baker, Drummer of 60s band Cream, does not receive royalties, despite creating the band and contributing to many of their songs.
b67QN TIL in 1411 a Chinese army invaded Sri Lanka, defeated and overthrew the king, and brought him back to China as a prisoner to the Ming emperor.
VBLG4 TIL gyros in Greece are made with pork or chicken, not beef/lamb