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TIL: Short Sleeper Syndrome is a gene mutation discovered by the University of Pittsburgh in 2014. They can function normally with less than 6 hours of sleep and never need to "recover" from lack of sleep as opposed to people who purposefully limit sleep. The mutation was given to mice and worked.

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nWmpG TIL that “Stranger Things” star Winona Ryder pushed for Kate Bush’s song “Running Up That Hill” to be featured on the show. Ryder also stated that for seven years, she dropped hints on the show’s set by wearing her Kate Bush t-shirts. Winona’s plan eventually worked.
oRYWW TIL about the Axis of evil in Cosmology. It’s the correlation between the plane of the Solar System and aspects of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and gives the plane of the Solar System and hence the location of Earth a greater significance than is expected by chance.
jwKn TIL Operation Snow White, 136 US gov’t agencies were robbed by the Church of Scientology in the “largest infiltration of the government in history” with “5,000 covert agents” in order to purge documents that were unfavorable of Scientology.
jxpv TIL that there is an annual literature contest that challenges writers to come up with the worst possible opening sentence to a novel.
Vbam TIL that Apple used to add the letter “x” to the names of their computers which got a processor upgrade. The convention was broken with Macintosh SE/30, which, if the rule was effective, would be called “Macintosh SEx.”