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TIL about "Hobson's Choice". It labels an illusion of free choice where only one thing is actually offered.

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jND6n TIL Michael Jackson is the only known human to go 60 days without real sleep (REM sleep). He would 'fall asleep' every night using propofol, which creates medically induced comas.
4Xnd6 TIL that even though he owned slaves in the past, Benjamin Franklin became more opposed to slavery later in his life. Eventually becoming the president of an abolitionist society, he even included a provision in his will that required his child to free her slave in order to gain his inheritance.
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