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TIL about 1 in 20 people sleep with their eyes open

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R5Rba TIL Cowboy boots aren’t taxed in Texas, but hiking boots are.
9YQnp TIL Zeus created humans as balls with 2 heads, 4 arms & legs. He cut them in half because they were rolling around displaying too much power. After mutilating them, he felt bad. So he let the 2 halves embrace each other through sex, giving them a short sensation of their prior powers through orgasm.
BxEx TIL Al Qaeda’s hit list for american politicians didn’t include Joe Biden because they thought he would mess up the presidency so badly as to be helpful towards their cause
BgZyD TIL - the XF-84H "Thunderscreech" experimental plane had a jet powered supersonic propeller, and it was so loud that ground crews vomited, and it was reported to be heard from 25 miles away
ZDwo TIL in 1945, a radar engineer named Percy Spencer was working at Ratheon. He stepped in front of a magnetron, a device that powers radars. He noticed a chocolate bar in his pocket had melted. Later that year, he filed a patent for the first microwave oven.