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TIL: Research suggests that people who take long naps during the day or sleep 9 or more hours at night may have an increased risk of stroke. Long nappers and long sleepers were 85% more likely to have a stroke. Those with poor sleep quality were 29% more likely to have a stroke.

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jwGN TIL during the Nanking Massacre, it is estimated Japanese soldiers raped 20,000 women. They were often killed after being raped, often through explicit mutilation or by stabbing a bayonet, long stick of bamboo, or other objects into the vagina. Young children were cut open to allow them to be raped.
oZRR TIL Cinderella has been in almost every culture even back to ancient Egypt.
JA9l TIL that over 30 years ago Judas Priest was banned from Madison Square Garden after a rambunctious crowd threw firecrackers, M-80s, Cherry Bombs, beer bottles and ripped out over $250,000 worth of seating. The ban is still in effect.
xgND TIL a genetic study of people from Iceland found a number of them had a mutation predominantly found among Native Americans. It has theorised that this could be because of American women breeding with Viking men, during Norse exploration of America in the 11th century AD.
rNaE1 TIL Wagner group named after Hitler's favorite composer