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TIL four-legged herbivores such as cows and horses have "stay apparatus" in their legs -- tendons and ligaments that allow them to remain standing with minimal muscular effort. However, while this allows them to doze while standing, they can enter REM sleep and dream only while lying down.

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WkXmN TIL Häagen-Dazs was created in the 1960s by an American couple living in the Bronx. They used a Danish-sounding name because it conveyed an "aura of the old-world traditions and craftsmanship" and added an umlaut even though that punctuation doesn't exist in the Danish language to make it stand out.
16XMX TIL that the political party of the current president of El Salvador believes in center left economic policies but right wing social policies, making it neither a left wing nor right wing party.
Oo4QX TIL - During World War II, at the urging of the US government, actress Veronica Lake changed her signature hairstyle because women working in war time machine shops were often injured when their long hair became tangled in machinery.
gMxj9 TIL Astronaut James B. Irwin, who walked on the moon in 1971, later became a minister who was involved in six unsuccesseful expeditions to search for traces of Noah's Ark. Irwin had a history of heart trouble and was the first to die of the 12 men who walked on the moon
jNVav TIL The Queen of England has someone who breaks in her shoes for her before she wears them ,”...the shoes have to be immediately comfortable and to achieve this, a member of staff with the same size feet will trot up and down palatial corridors for her until they are suitably broken in.”