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TIL That you hallucinate when you are about to fall asleep

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xMk5 TIL, Jimmy Doyle, a boxer who died shortly after a fight with Sugar Ray Robinson, took the fight to buy his mum a house. Robinson, kindly gave all the money from his next 4 fights to Doyle’s Mum, to buy that house. She spent the money on drugs and legal terms to try and sue Robinson for more money.
x6jGk TIL Men tend to dream about other men more often than women. Studies show that men's dreams are populated by around 67% other men, while women's dreams contain an equal mix of both genders.
p80wb TIL honeybees that falls into water does not necessarily drown. Although they are not strong enough to free themselves from water directly (and their wings are too sticky when wet), they can use their wings to “surf” to safety at the edge of the pond,
oBDD7 TIL Roald Dahl was a fighter pilot in WWII
xl47 TIL that during the Holocaust in Poland, a member of the Nazi Party Albert Battel saved over a hundred Jews from liquidation by going into the ghetto with army trucks and transported the Jews to the barracks of the local Wehrmacht platoon, at there they were under the protection of the Wehrmacht.