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TIL that sleeping too much is associated with greater risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, and diabetes than sleeping too little in adults over 45.

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5mlR TIL Nancy Grace ruthlessly badgered an innocent man accused in the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping and still won’t admit she was wrong
9wLK6 TIL that ethics books are substantially more likely to go missing from university libraries than books about other fields of philosophy
rRAax TIL that, in 1922, Nikola Tesla imagined that his favorite pigeon told him that she was dying. When she actually did shortly after, he said that "something went out of his life and he knew his life's work was finished".
1awp4 TIL In 1994, after hearing of the impending Y2K glitch, a man trademarked the date “01-01-00” and by the year 2000 it had earned him over $260 million in royalties
OoJ5L TIL that Chimpanzees are the only primates apart from humans observed to not only have territory but also defend that territory, and go to war against other owners of territory for control over it, leading to (relatively) massive casualties.