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A sleepless night is the cognitive equivalent of being legally drunk.

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yQO7X TIL two-thirds of the way between your 31st and 32nd birthdays, you will turn one billion seconds old.
E4QP TIL there are no known cases of elevators free-falling and killing the passengers inside
yQbnM TIL that apiarists, geneticists, and bee breeding engineers at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada have developed a new bee breed that is supposed to have beneficial traits, including strength and mite resistance, to try and cure colony collapse disorder and save the bees. #savethebees
QNKke TIL that Bayer knowingly sold HIV tainted blood products to 3rd world hemophiliacs because they decided the financial investment of the product was considered too high to destroy
8a9wZ TIL that an Indian woman defended her father from three gunmen that had broken into their home, and fought them off. She disarmed one, attacked him with an axe, then killed him with his own gun, before shooting and wounding another as he made his escape.