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TIL that alien abduction stories are probably based on sleep paralysis, a condition where you wake up, dream-hallucinate someone in your room, and can’t move.

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Y7nlA TIL the tiny nation of Vanuatu has the world's highest linguistic density per capita. Its population of 300,000 speak 138 indigenous Oceanic languages. That's not counting the languages brought in by new migrants.
manM TIL: The number of homeschooled children increased by 61.8% in the last 10 years.
oPVR TIL the Florida School for Boys, a reform school shut down in 2011, gained a reputation for abuse, beatings, rapes, torture, and even murder of students by staff. 50 unmarked and undocumented graves have been located on the property using radar.
R5en7 TIL the reputation of pigeons as "dirty" is fairly recent. The abundance of food in postwar North America attracted pigeons to cities, where their large numbers led to a large amount of defecation. Before that, juvenile pigeon meat, known as "squab", was a popular food source throughout the world.
lve1 TIL that John Wilkes Booth’s brother, Edwin Booth, saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert Lincoln.