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TIL about 1 in 20 people sleep with their eyes open

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VMrKD TIL Snapple tried to break the world record for the biggest Popsicle only to fail and flood Union Square in downtown Manhattan with kiwi-strawberry-flavored fluid that sent pedestrians scurrying for higher ground.
Br8rD TIL: Cats are known as both Invasive Species AND Superpredators due to their ability to rapidly wipe out entire species of small fauna, only surpassed by humans
j67pa TIL after Drew Barrymore posed nude for Playboy in 1995, her godfather Steven Spielberg sent her a note saying "cover yourself up", along with copies of her pictures altered to make it appear she was fully clothed
LVMp TIL when Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize Atlanta threw him a celebration party that almost had to be cancelled due to opposition. Coca-Cola’s CEO threatened to take the company out of Atlanta out of embarrassment that the city’s people wouldn’t honor their Nobel Prize winner.
nN4W TIL that Boston Corbett, the soldier who killed John Wilkes Booth, castrated himself with a pair of scissors so he wouldn’t be tempted by prositutes