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TIL that the lower ranks of the US Navy can be sentenced to rations of bread and water for not more than 3 days as punishment for misconduct

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BrDBe TIL: Children who have sensory processing issues and take part in “heavy work” activities (proprioceptive input) such as pushing, lifting, or carrying heavy objects, experience an increased ability to focus, improved motor skills, and decreased behavioral defensiveness.
b9vWE TIL that there exists a dying Mexican language called Ayapenaco. The only two people left in the world that can speak it are a pair of elderly men who refused to talk to each other until 2014 when they decided to make amends to try to prevent the language from going extinct.
M7RDa TIL, baseball’s Seattle Mariners were given their name in a newspaper contest by a man named Roger Szmodis, who no one has been able to track down in the 46 years since
l1kK TIL A man who committed a mass murder in North Carolina in 1988 was set free in 2012.
wLokW TIL when most species of marine mammals are asleep, there is always one hemisphere of their brain that is awake. This allows dolphins, for example, to swim and surface to breathe when they are sleeping. They enjoy the benefits of sleep but still perform many of the same processes done when awake.