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TIL Cats Sleep For 70 Percent of Their Lives

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Odna TIL the founder of the FBI, who had also served as Secretary of the Navy and US Attorney General was the great nephew of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
4VZ6 TIL ‘Coraline’ is the longest stop motion movie created.
oK8A TIL that there is a 3D image of Marines hoisting the Flag over Iwo Jima because photographer Joe Rosenthal and camera man Staff Sgt. Bill Genaust took almost the same image standing a few feet apart
rlm4 TIL, Koreans reckon the pregnancy period as one year of life for infants, and age increments increase on New Year’s Day rather than on the anniversary of birthdays. Thus, one born immediately before New Year’s Day may only be a few days old in western reckoning, but two years old in Korea.
pO6Z TIL humans are unlikely to sink entirely into quicksand due to the higher density of the fluid: quicksand has a density of about 2 grams per milliliter, while human density is only about 1 gram per milliliter. A human would descend about up to their waist, but no further.