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TIL that people in medieval times slept in two segments

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Y7eWP TIL about the Diomede Islands - Big Diomede is in Russian territory, Little Diomede is in the U.S. They're just 2 miles apart, but due to the International Date Line, Big Diomede is 21 hours ahead of Little Diomede.
WPnA TIL in 2004, a cleaner at the Tate Modern threw away an art exhibit because she thought it was rubbish
gr7Py TIL that Carl Sagan has an archive in the Library of Congress, endowed by the creator of Family Guy. Seth MacFarlane put up an undisclosed sum to help the Library of Congress buy more than a thousand boxes of material kept by the late scientist and his wife and collaborator, Ann Druyan.
ZGQY TIL in 1994, the operational head of the U.S. Public Health Service was fired for saying masturbation should be encouraged in order to prevent people from engaging in riskier forms of sexual activity.
epKlD TIL there was a Confederate general named States Rights Gist, whose father chose his son's name to reflect his own political sentiments