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TIL Alcohol withdrawal can cause vivid dreaming. Heavy alcohol use reduces the amount of REM sleep we experience each night, but that when we quit alcohol, REM sleep rebounds

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E1deP TIL that it takes four or five generations of monarch butterflies to complete the annual migration from Mexico to northern USA/Canada in the spring but in the fall a single "super generation" completes the entire 3,000 mile journey.
kAgB TIL R. Lee Ermey, best known as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket, was the first retiree in the history of the Marines to be promoted.
a8GdA TIL that there is a unit called the Scandinavian mile, which is sometimes used in Norway and Sweden to this day. It is 10 kilometers.
WGxL TIL that during the Rwanadan Genocide France gave the Hutu-dominated government extensive military, and diplomatic support during Opération Turquoise. The Hutu were the ones committing genocide.
rxWe TIL that in 1874 a satirical article was published claiming that a women was impregnated by a bullet that plunged through the testicle of a soldier. The story persisted as a medical fact as late as 1959