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TIL Marijuana deprives you of REM sleep. If you stop smoking, you will have a rebound period of REM sleep producing intense dream.

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5Dr9 TIL All packaged products sold in India have a “maximum retail price” printed on the package by the manufacturer and that it is illegal for a store to charge more than that. India is the only country with this system.
dxLd TIL of an Austrian man named Adam Rainer, who is the only person in medical history to have been classified as a dwarf and a giant during his lifetime.
4X8Oo TIL of the Solway Firth Spaceman, a mysterious figure seen in a 1964 photograph that no one knew the identity of for five decades. The photographer was visited by two men in black not long after, fueling the fire of UFOlogists who believed it to be a conspiracy
8a6pb TIL The husband of British writer Angelica Garnett (a niece of Virginia Woolf) had once been a lover of her biological father. She later dated a painter who had also been one of her father's lovers.
6eoW TIL that Apple discontinued use of the word “laptop” in its product manuals and technology because of the potential risk caused from using your laptop… on your lap.