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TIL: Almost 25% of the population of Montana is on Oxycontin.

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eglL TIL many prominent historians have good proof that before the industrial revolution, most people slept in two periods per day, rather than one continuous period of nightly sleep
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a8beA TIL about Michael Colombini, a 6-year-old boy who was killed when a nurse accidentally brought a steel oxygen tank into the room where he was getting an MRI scan. The tank flew toward him, crushing his skull, and leading to his death 2 days later.
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