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TIL Marvel’s ‘The Avengers’ movie caused shawarma sales to SKYROCKET nationwide

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xVNYb TIL... Of First and Second Sleep.In the early 1990s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month.They slept first for four hours, then woke for one or two hours before falling into a second four-hour sleep.
OoGJY TIL in 1984, Steven Tyler, the vocalist for the band Aerosmith, heard an old Aerosmith song on the radio and didn't recognize it due to memory loss from years of drug use. He suggested the band record a cover of the song. Lead guitarist, Joe Perry told him "It's us, fuckhead."
9YPv6 TIL that in 2011 a 99-year-old Italian man divorced his 96-year-old wife after finding her secret love letters from the 1940s, revealing she had an affair
jNeaX TIL the Calusa Native American tribe ate shellfish and discarded middens of shell waste into Florida waters for generations, forming an entire island, ecosystem, and archaeological site known as Mound Key
lmXa TIL after Czech resistance assassinated brutal Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, the Czech town of Lidice was razed and nearly all of its citizens, pets and livestock were shot. In response to Hitler’s desire to wipe Lidice off the map, Venezuela, Brazil, Panama and Mexico renamed towns to Lidice.