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TIL that those who systematically take naps had a 37% lower coronary mortality.

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D1NZP TIL Hitler wished Islam had spread throughout Europe rather than Christianity
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166L7 TIL about Bald Knobbers, a group of vigilantes in the Ozark mountains that formed in response to lawlessness in the area from the Civil War