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TIL some Native Americans domesticated coyotes into dogs instead of wolves.

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nWr69 TIL Stanford engineers made a folding origami microscope that costs less than $1 to make. 50,000 microscopes were shipped to 130 countries in 2014 to see what people will do with it
78YRZ TIL hearing sudden and loud bursts of noise while falling asleep or waking up is called Exploding Head Syndrome.
5llB TIL that russian peasants used to practice 6 month periods of psudo hibernation each and every year to stave off starvation and famine. It was called the ‘Winter Sleep’ or 'lotska’.
x6lwD TIL The film Baby Driver was inspired by Noel Fielding's performance in a Mint Royale music video
j6dj TIL A family foreclosed a bank for trying to foreclose them illegally, and then not paying the legal fees when the family won.