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TIL that the CDC has urged that schools open later because two-thirds of teenagers suffer chronic sleep deprivation.

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LkJ6v TIL in 19th-Century America, popcorn was eaten with milk and sweetener as a breakfast cereal.
eG7E TIL after Philippe Petit’s famous high-wire performance between the Twin Towers - “the artistic crime of the century” - he was charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct. These charges were dropped on the condition that Philippe put on a free high-wire performance for children in Central Park.
KOMJ TIL Brian Doyle-Murray, the voice for characters such as The Flying Dutchman and Captain K'nuckles is one of Bill Murray’s brothers.
Y1wr TIL Teddy Roosevelt Jr (son of President Theodore Roosevelt) was the oldest man to invade the beaches of Normandy, the only man to invade Normandy with his son (Cpt. Quentin Roosevelt II on Omaha Beach), and he was the only general to lead his troops (on Omaha beach with only a cane and a pistol)
m8wO TIL before the 1980s, it was unlawful to own your own telephone.