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TIL modern people get similar amounts of sleep to people from pre-industrial times, but the extra exposure to artificial light means we sleep worse

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69dQ7 TIL Luffas grow on a vine on land! Not in the sea like I thought. It’s also edible before it gets to the scrubby spongy stage. TY to the little luffa farm in SLO. Side note it looks like a big cucumber at first.
R78XQ TIL of Eyam. A small Northern English village of 350 persons who in 1665 when the plague arrived chose to isolate themselves rather than let the infection spread. 83 survived but their decision stopped further infection in the region.
b9nD4 TIL When Queen Elizabeth delivers a speech in Parliament, a member of the House of Commons is kept hostage at Buckingham Palace. The hostage is released when the Queen safely returns.
gM5GD TIL that the furthest detected individual star is 14.4 billion light years from Earth. We can detect it from so far away because gravity from objects between us and the star have warped its light, magnifying it 2000 times and focusing the star's light onto Earth for telescopes to pick up.
4XWZ6 TIL: That you can train honeybees to detect explosives