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TIL that Your Brain Stays Half Awake When You Sleep In A New Place

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jkGQ TIL scientists have found that the perception of time varies as a function of mass & metabolic rate across species. Smaller animals w/ faster metabolisms can respond to visual stimuli at a faster rate b/c they perceive movements & events to unfold more slowly (like bullet dodging in the Matrix).
a8rEA TIL when the Lions visited Griffith Stadium in 1939, the Redskins won 31-7. Each trip to the D.C. area had the same result, a Washington win. The Redskins had a 17-point average margin of victory during their home streak over the Lions, who finally won at Washington in 2013 with a 27-20 victory.
nrDB TIL that upon leaving office, President Harry S Truman chose not to be on any corporate payroll, believing that taking advantage of such financial opportunities would diminish the integrity of the nation’s highest office.
b66pE TIL In 2009, two Northwest pilots had their licenses revoked (for at least one year) after they overflew the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport by 150 miles and had to turn around. Pilots said that they were using their laptops in the cockpit and lost track of time and place.
oRNWY TIL Maitotoxin-1 is an extremely powerful and potent biotoxin produced by the dinoflagellate species Gambierdiscus toxicus. It has a LD50 of 130ng/kg in mice and it produces one of the most complex and largest non-protein and non-polysaccharide molecules by organisms.