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TIL that an estimated 30% of people will experience sleep paraylsis at least once in their life

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Z8pEp TIL Papua New Guinea has over 820 spoken languages making it the most linguistically diverse place on the planet.
9bpD TIL Alcohol is the most dangerous drug to withdrawal from.
pONG TIL that the Greco-Persian War (the one from 300) didn’t officially end until 1902, when Greece finally resumed diplomatic relations with Persia after over 2,300 years.
nRYG TIL that in 2009, Robert Downey Jr. was detained at a Japanese airport and held for 6 hours after authorities ran his passport and saw he’d failed to mention his previous convictions. He was eventually allowed to attend the ‘Iron Man’ premiere on the terms that he “never returned to Japan again.”
wLQw7 TIL on November 22, 1963, an unidentified woman placed a phone call to a news station, telling them John F Kennedy was about to be killed. The call was placed about 20 minutes before his assassination, from the vicinity of Oxnard, California, about fifty miles northwest of Los Angeles.