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TIL the reason we can't wake ourselves up by snoring is that a part of our brain makes us expect the snoring before it happens, so we don't get surprised or woken up when it does happen

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Z8AjD TIL If you are born over the United States, in a foreign plane with foreign parents, you can still claim U.S. citizenship
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