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TIL Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration: A prospective cohort study

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Mxa8 TIL that according to the Democracy Index (created by a business within the Economist Group), only 25 countries are full democracies. 53 are flawed democracies, 36 are hybrids and 53 are authoritarian.
e0no4 TIL that John Steinbeck, when asked if he deserved the Nobel Prize for Literature, replied: "Frankly, no."
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