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TIL your hearing doesn’t “turn off” in your sleep, your brain just tunes out or “ignores” any incoming sounds.

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W7vWN TIL An art professor at Syracuse University grafted a single tree that grows forty different types of stone fruit including peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, cherries, and almonds. There are now a handful of these trees in different cities around the US.
ne159 Today I learned that part of the reason Pythagoras hated beans so much was the belief that beans contained the souls of dead people. Hence, when you farted, you farted the souls of your dead ancestors.
p8nkO TIL of the biblical practice of shmita - every seven years, farmland would be left fallow. Any crops that grew were free for the taking by all, and all debts were negated.
X4p8 TIL that a commercial 1989 laptop had a multitasking graphical OS and full office suite, SSD storage and a 60 hour battery life as well as featuring hot-swappable batteries and instant suspend/resume.
e01Rn TIL a mother realized that her twin boys had two different fathers. Following a DNA test, the couple learned that the babies were actually from two different fathers and the mother then revealed she had a previous one-night stand, Vice reported.