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TIL For those who have trouble sleeping researchers say that 1 week of camping, without electronics, resets our biological body clock and synchronizes our melatonin hormones with sunrise and sunset.

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5ner TIL the only senator to vote against the US entering the Second World War, after the Pearl Harbor attack, defended her position by saying “As a woman, I can’t go to war and I refuse to send anyone else.” Republican leaders from Montana – her state – demanded she change her vote, but she refused.
D1pbp TIL new Converse Chuck Taylor All-Star sneakers are fuzzy on the sole, because this allows them to be taxed as slippers. Slippers have a much lower import tariff than shoes (in the USA.)
Z8NWR TIL automobile industrialist Henry Ford was admired by Adolf Hitler for promoting anti-Semitic content, including The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, through his newspaper The Dearborn Independent, and the book The International Jew.
Me0E0 TIL the current form of herion was as marketed as "non-addictive morphine substitute" / cough suppressant and is derived from morphine. The inventor thought to had removed the addictive aspect but after further research it appeared to be the most addictive version of morphine ever.
X07mP TIL In he aftermath of Ramsses III's assassination, 28 people were executed on the spot after found guilty of organising the plot, 10 people were forced to commit suicide, 4 people, including two of the judges had their nose and ears cut off and one court official was issued a stern verbal warning