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TIL: When You’re Sleep-Deprived, Your Brain Literally Starts Eating Itself

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v7Y4 TIL Comedian Mitch Hedberg never passed on a job, having been told “no” so often early in his career that he felt like if he didn’t say “yes,” he might not be given the opportunity to perform again.
7rPMx TIL Despite claiming 100% of your online tip goes to the driver, Doordash words their pay model deceivingly so they can legally reduce your driver's pay by $1 for every $1 you tip.
dDR6Q TIL mushroom clouds can be caused by any powerful explosion, not just nuclear, and there are depictions of them in art since the 1700's
rNE9x TIL that the leader of the Crips, Stanley Williams, lived a double life where during the day, he was an anti-gang youth counselor, and at night acted as the overboss of the Crips, committing violent gang crimes against the Bloods
byVQ TIL: Blood type is so important in Japan, you can be hired (or fired) for it, as well as buy blood-type-specific products like condoms that “are all the same, but contain different instructions for each blood group”