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TIL that there is a phenomenon while we sleep known as Hypermnesia that seems to prove we have access to more memories while dreaming than in waking life.

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16xD8 TIL about the Siège D'Amour (Love Chair). A chair designed and built by French furniture manufacturer Soubrier to allow the corpulent British King Edward VII to have sex with two women simultaneously while protecting them from being crushed by his weight.
YpJZv TIL there are dairy farms with cows trained to use automatic milking machines, which will milk the cows automatically whenever the cow feels like it. The machines will even remember each cow individually, and push them out if they've been there too recently.
46ww TIL evidence shows that the space shuttle Challenger’s crew survived the explosion and could have been conscious until the crew cabin hit the ocean. 4 of 5 recovered crew air packs had been activated and pilot switches that could only have been moved manually by a person were moved.
ydj8 TIL while trying to eclipse the Eiffel Tower for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, an inventor named J. B. McComber proposed a 8,947 foot tower which would have rails extending from the top, leading all the way to New York City, Baltimore, and Boston, on which fair-goers could toboggan all the way home
N77bJ TIL that guitar great Skunk Baxter of The Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan is also a DoD consulting expert on ballistic missiles and chairs the Congressional Advisory Board on Missile Defense.