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TIL your brain stays half-awake when you goto sleep in a new place

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jNB7Q TIL A group of fans made an award winning web series completing the 5 year mission of the Enterprise in the original Star Trek series. So good, Gene Roddenberry's son considers it to be canon.
ne4W9 TIL that the ‘104 days of summer vacation’ referenced in the Phineas and Ferb cartoon song was used because co-creator Dan Povenmire only expected the show to last 52 episodes, like most Disney Channel shows lasted at the time, and there were two segments per episode, making it 104.
g7KX TIL that 12 African nations have come together pledging to build a 15 kilometer wide band of trees that will stretch all the way across Africa, 7500 kilometer, in order to stop the progressive advancement of the Sahara.
vExD TIL Americans mostly eat white chicken meat and export the rest to Russia/Asia where dark meat is preferred, so most chickens get split in two and sent around the world.
jN5XE TIL The world’s first fully-trained paramedics was made up of exclusively young Black men in the 1960s