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TIL We Used To Sleep In Two Segments Every Night Until Electricity Was Invented

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MeBeb TIL the fear of palindromes is called aibohphobia.
REM9 TIL during a world-wide hop shortage in 2008, Sam Adams brewing company sold craft brewers their hops at cost to keep them in business and has given over 3 million in loans to small breweries to spur competition.
9wVN6 TIL about the Levon Affair, a false flag operation in Egypt committed by Israeli intelligence. The bombings were to be blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood. Incriminating evidence was found in the apartment of one of the agents whose bomb prematurely ignited.
ZnpQ TIL Finland has been pioneering a form of deciding upon public policy where people actually think through the problems at issue, ponder on them, consider solutions, test a few of them, and then implement the best.
xVPob TIL Tupac Shakur's favourite song was Don McLean's "Vincent." So Tupac's girlfriend kept the song on repeat so it would be the last thing he heard at his death.