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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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R5868 TIL that Mcdonalds Chicken McNuggets almost never existed. Instead the fast food giant originally tried to feed us ‘onion nuggets’.
l7GnV TIL Mary Surratt was the first woman to be executed by the U.S Federal Government after being convicted for her alleged involvement in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
j6jGM TIL Several African countries don’t like second-hand clothes being imported to their countries because it is destroying their local textile industry.
jNaKj TIL There is a deepsea crab named after the metal band "Metallica", because its habitat contains all kinds of metals and to raise awareness to the effects of deepsea metal mining
rRBDw TIL: A Belgian priest named Georges Lemaître was the first to suggest the big bang theory as the origin of creation in the 1920s, when he theorized that the universe began from a single primordial atom.