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TIL the human brain remains half awake when sleeping in a new environment for the first time. When we sleep in a new place, our brains are actually in survival mode, only turning half off, with one hemisphere remaining more “awake” than the other

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1a5L4 TIL The original title of Saturday Night Live was "NBC's Saturday Night", due to the existence of an ABC show titled "Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell". This is why the famous opening phrase is worded "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!".
9YNBG TIL that Tom DeLonge, lead singer of Blink 182, opened a company with former top level CIA, Lockheed, and DoD engineers. They want to gradually release protected information on the UFO phenomenon.
YpomG TIL, in 2015, brothers John and Geof Bitmead modified a Daewoo Matiz to resemble the red and yellow 'Little Tikes' car. The car cost £30,000 to build, and was put on auction for £21,500; it failed to sell.
GYaBQ TIL that the destruction wrought by hurricanes results in lizards with strong toes, thanks to natural selection
J1ybQ TIL that Meyer Goldstein, one of two Socialists to serve in the U.S. Congress, lost his seat to Samuel Dickstein, who was later discovered to be spying for the Soviet Union