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TIL that binge watchers are 98% more likely to suffer from poor sleep quality compared to those who did not identify as a binge viewer

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p8JRe TIL the Shrine of Rememberence in Melbourne, Australia was desiged with a cutout in the roof such that sunlight only shines through on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It lights up the word "Love" in the inscription during the moment of silence.
jNK6j TIL when a band called The Detours needed a new name, its guitarist sat with his flatmate, exchanging joke name ideas. However, one of these joke names ended up sticking, and was accepted by the singer. That name was The Who.
VMNAG TIL Grand Guignol was a theatre founded in 1897 in Paris, which specialised in gory horror acts. After WW2, audiences waned and it got closed in 1962. This is because by that time, many already heard or witnessed the real horrors of war. Thus, they didn’t find interest in such theatre anymore
jNPKp TIL 200 Ugandan women who earned $1.20 a day breaking rocks into gravel, donated over $900 to U.S. victims of Hurricane Katrina
x8Z1 TIL there was a Roman god of poop.