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TIL Vinyl records outsell CDs for first time in 35 years

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0dgXy TIL that Sam Spade, despite being a noir icon, not including a few short stories only canonically appeared in the novel The Maltese Falcon and its movie adaptions
E8yw TIL That a 2 year old boy sat up in his coffin during his funeral, asked his father for a glass of water, then died again. Nobody knows what happened.
xVJ0D TIL Bill Withers intended to write a third verse to "Ain't no sunshine," but on the advise or others, just decided to repeat 'I know' 26 times.
vP044 TIL that the reason we feel groggy when we first wake up is caused by 'sleep inertia.' The gradual feeling of waking up is due to blood flow. Our 'primitive brain centers' get blood flow first and it isn't for 15 minutes or longer before blood flow returns to deeper thinking areas.
wJx6 TIL that synchronized swimmers have an unusually high rate of concussions for athletes, basically as a result of kicking each other in the head.