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5V9dQ TIL That Europeans In The Middle Ages Used To Sleep In Two Shifts, Dedicating The Period Between Their 'First Sleep' And 'Second Sleep' To A Range Of Activities
epRPk TIL the US Navy named a warship after Harold Holt, an Australian Prime Minister who disappeared while swimming. The ship was eventually used as a training target and sunk in 2002.
N7rWN TIL that the interstellar travels of Voyager I and II were only possible due to a specific planetary alignment that only occurs every 175 years. The position of the 4 outer planets enabled a slingshot move which greatly increased the crafts speed.
9YmyD TIL Tame Impala is a single person named Kevin Parker who writes, plays, and produces all the recorded music, but tours with a group of other musicians to form the full live band.
k8GW TIL China didn’t have fortune cookies until introduced 1993 and sold as “genuine American fortune cookies”