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TIL Pain tolerance is reduced by sleep deprivation.

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VBY8D TIL Agatha Christie sold an estimated 300 million books during her lifetime. Her total earnings are the equivalent of $91 million in today's money. However, due to awful financial planning, upon her death her will left only £106,683.
wLlr1 TIL the average American male weighs 196lbs (89kg), and the average American female 168lbs (76kg)
adEN TIL Marilyn Monroe quoted as saying “There is nothing positive about being fat, and there is nothing positive about loving yourself. We all need to conform to society’s expectations of who we are, and if we don’t, who will? - I was never fat a day in my life and I never will be”
pwee TIL in the 1940s at Oxford, Professor JRR Tolkien was generally considered the most boring lecturer around, teaching the most boring subject known to man, Anglo-Saxon philology and literature, in the most boring way imaginable.
R5md7 TIL AirBnB has almost negligible impact on rent and housing prices