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TIL that people used to split their sleep into two segments, waking up at for around 2 hours at around midnight to do chores, talk, have sex, etc.

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OoB6e TIL that despite making dozens of recordings of his voice on wax cylinders, no known recordings of Mark Twain's voice are known to have survived.
8akvV TIL the term "Life unworthy of life", used by the Nazis to describe the targets of the Holocaust, had been around since 1920 referring to mental disabilities, and later was adopted and extended by the Nazis to include racial differences.
xLjD TIL Albert Stevens was injected with plutonium without his knowledge or explicit consent in 1945. He survived over 20 years, accumulating a total radiation dose of 64 Sv - the highest known in any human being.
dDYO8 TIL that in 2014, the beard of Tutankhamun's golden mask fell off during cleaning at the Egyptian Museum. Workers used epoxy glue to reattach it, causing permanent damage and leading to their prosecution in 2016.
need7 TIL Willem Dafoe was expelled from high school for shooting a pornographic film.