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TIL naps are predominantly deep sleep and our body is wired for them.

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m1xEp TIL that a 2014 report found that the mortality rate for professional wrestlers was significantly higher than that of athletes in other sports.
gMXr9 TIL in 1977, the Mego Corporation decided to pass on the license for creating Star Wars action figures, unimpressed with the movie. Kenner/Hasbro subsequently took it, and since then has grossed over 6 billion dollars from the figures alone
0dYdN TIL that in 1964 Joe Bonanno plotted to assassinate the leaders of the American Mafia "Commission", the board of directors of organized crime. He would fail, and be stripped of leadership.
9wDmX TIL in No Country for Old Men one of the characters says "Here a while back in San Antonio they shot and killed a federal judge", which is a reference to a 1979 assassination committed by Woody Harrelson’s father, for which he received 2 life sentences
dDXad TIL The Miami Intermodal Center, located near Miami International Airport, was supposed to have an Amtrak station but it was discovered that Amtrak had forgotten to account for their longer winter trains while the platform was being built and trains would've block an adjacent road crossing.