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TIL that people who are depressed spend more time in REM sleep

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kOAK4 TIL: In the 1930s, residents of Munich would take a small side street so they didn't need to render the Nazi salute to the shrine of the Nazis who died in the Beer Hall Putsch. This side road came to be called "Drückebergergasse" or "Shirker's alley"
VokB TIL XVideos alone averages 4.4 billion page views per month, double what Reddit pulls over the same time and triple what CNN can do.
9YKX7 TIL that airport officials in Bulgaria seized two million baby eels that had been hidden in luggage. The eels, known as elvers, had been declared food items. It’s a critically endangered species and cannot be exported outside the region.
nWvb7 TIL of the MARAUDER program, an experimental plasma railgun system that shot lightning balls with "devastating thermal and mechanical shock." It was also said to emit a strong EMP to scramble electronics. It became classified in 1993, with few references to it since.
0wAKp TIL Elvis weighed 350lbs at his death and was rumored to consume 10,000 calories daily toward the end of his life.