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TIL the movie ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ was based on news articles of Cambodian refugees refusing to fall asleep due to nightmares. Many of them ended up dying in their sleep of unexplained causes.

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0Zpp TIL that “Daddy Long Legs” (Harvestmen not Cellar Spiders) are nonvenomous, lack fangs entirely, and aren’t even a spider.
1a978 TIL that strings and cables moving randomly will spontaneously knot themselves with a probability reaching 100%
awrNJ TIL that Nerf stands for, Non-Expanding Recreational Foam.
9YyOB TIL that in 1995 NASA updated an original study by Peter N Witt on the effects of various drugs on spiders and found similar results.
Qovd TIL homosexuality was still classified as an illness in Sweden in 1979. Swedes protested by calling in sick to work, claiming they felt gay