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TIL that being optimistic lower your chance of suffering from sleep disorders and insomnia

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OGDK1 TIL Vladimir Lenin ruled the shortest time in the Soviet Union, only 1 year and 22 days.
8ajGX TIL that a clean room used in chip manufacturing is thousands of times cleaner than a operating room. Chip manufacturing clean rooms have 10 particles per cubic meter while ORs allow 10,000 particles per cubic meter.
KnGR TIL mangrove trees live in saltwater, filter out 99% of salt through their roots, and are literally desalination plants.
ODgR TIL there is no evidence to suggest that Marie Antoinette ever said, “let them eat cake.” Scholars think the phrase was a common insult used to criticize aristocratic figures in the 18th century.
ADkp4 TIL thst all St. Patrick chased out of Ireland was paganism, and snakes have never existed in Ireland