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TIL that guitar legend Chet Atkins would fall asleep every night playing guitar while sitting upright in a chair; the habit started as a result of his childhood asthma, which was alleviated by sitting upright.

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Z8xda TIL Charles Kuentz fought for the Germans during WW1 but became a French citizen after his homeland, Alsace-Lorraine, was taken back by France after the war. When France surrendered to Germany in 1940 he became a German citizen until the fall of the Third Reich which again made him a French citizen.
VMA9B TIL That a man in Florida woke up with a splitting migraine. When he arrives at the hospital, doctors found a bullet in his head. His wife had shot him in the head while he slept.
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oRZ7K TIL that the woman from the iconic “Triggered Feminist” meme was actually pretty calm and rational. Her intense-looking facial expression was just a single frame that was paused and deliberately cherry-picked to make her look bad (timestamp 3:20)