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TIL that women are 2x as likely as men to have insomnia

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a87wo TIL Colin Hanks (Tom Hanks Son) owns a handkerchief company called Hanks Kerchiefs
9DMM TIL that the real reason the ocean is salty is because the entire volume of the ocean is going inside the earth into magma chambers and out, every 6-8 million years, where it exchanges minerals it got from rivers, and we did not know this until 1979.
DQxop TIL the first Commonwealth solider lost in WWI (English Pvt. John Parr on Aug. 21, 1914) is buried in the same cemetery as the last soldier lost (Canadian Pvt. George Lawrence Price on Nov. 11, 1918).
ne069 TIL of Southeastern Provisions, a slaughterhouse in which its owner was reported for weekly deposits of $100K for in-cash-payroll. Many workers were undocumented and not paid for overtime. After a undercover operation, the IRS and ICE raided the site in one of the largest raids in US history.
5RMD TIL - A man made a pain scale after being stung or bitten by over 80 different species of insects. The descriptions really bring it home.