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TIL Reading in dreams is impossible because reading and dreaming belong to different parts of the brain, which don't cooperate while dreaming.

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Xrek TIL more men want children than women. “8 out of 10 men say they’ve always wanted to be fathers, compared to 7 out of 10 women who say they’ve always wanted to be mothers.”
d8dkj TIL that Americans spend more time watching other people on television cook than they do cooking themselves.
0doLR TIL about Bruno Kastner, one of the most popular actors in Germany’s silent film era. His career ended with the advent of sound as audiences discovered he spoke with a stutter. Less than two years after his sound film debut, he took his own life at the age of 42.
5YKKn TIL of King's Lomatia, whose entire species consists of 500 identical clones in a 1.2 km area of Tasmania. The 44 thousand year old clonal colony “doesn’t do sex” and is dying out despite conservation attempts.
yVPMJ TIL There are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there are atoms on Earth