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TIL vibrations of cars make people sleepier

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1aZyP TIL that the inventor of Vaseline, who lived to be 96, swore that eating a spoonful of Vaseline each morning was beneficial to health.
1LvD TIL Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa’s son, is being sued by his father’s estate in a trademark dispute for using the Zappa name.
Eg5Ad TIL Legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt once broke an umbrella over a theater usher's head when he called her "little Bernhardt". She apologized profusely and 20 years later when the usher retired she bought him a house.
D18jg TIL Apollo 12 was hit by lightning twice within a minute of launch, knocking out the command module instruments, lighting up nearly every warning light on the control panel and garbling the telemetry to mission control. Earlier training simulating such a failure allowed them to restore power.
epaA4 TIL Teresa Fidalgo, a famous internet ghost, was originally just a creation of a movie from Portugal