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TIL that suddenly jerking awake when you're falling asleep is called Hypnic Jerk which happens to everyone and is very normal

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m6Ly TIL California’s largest body of water, the Salton Sea, was created by an engineering mistake. Irrigation canals were dug from the Colorado river to the Salton sink. When the river flooded a dyke was breached and the entire Colorado river poured into the sink making the sea.
Oo1vX TIL Spade Cooley, country music star, was sentenced to life in prison for beating his wife to death in front of their daughter. He later received a 72-hour furlough from the prison hospital unit to play a benefit concert. After receiving a standing ovation he suffered a fatal heart attack backstage.
laVr TIL cats can become addicted to tuna and refuse to eat anything else. Veterinarians refer to these cats as ‘tuna junkies.’
X5GQ TIL That the opening scene in Starship Troopers, an infantry advertisment, was adapted shot for shot from a Nazi propaganda movie called Triumph of Will. The scene featured an outdoor rally of the militarized and indoctrinated german labour force, the Reichsarbeitsdienst.
0wx6N TIL hoatzins are the only birds born with claws on their wings, a trait exhibited in dinosaurs like archaeopteryxes.