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TIL that hundreds of years ago most people would go to sleep early, wake up for about an hour in middle of night and do various things, and then go back to bed for a ‘second sleep’

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EapV TIL Red heads require 20% more anaesthesia then normal during surgery
KYAbJ TIL: About Queen Radavalona I, "The Mad Monarch of Madagascar". She enforced isolationist policies, hunted down Christians, repelled the French, and made tax payments payable through forced labor. She eliminated her mom by starvation to not spill her own blood. The population dropped in half.
E1lBP TIL of the trial and judgement of Nazi camp commandant Josef Oberhauser. Sentenced by West German courts for 450,000 counts of accessory to murder in the Bełżec camp, he was punished with 4,5 years imprisonment, or, a bit more than 5 minutes per victim.
b9Ly9 TIL Memorial Day was started by freed slaves to honor soldiers who died during the civil war
xonb TIL Nero (Emperor of Rome) liked, castrated and married a young boy that resembled his deceased second wife (which he may have murdered)