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TIL Pain tolerance is reduced by sleep deprivation.

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awexA TIL There is an ongoing study of Dutch seniors over age 100, self-reported to be cognitively healthy, where they are followed annually until death. Centenarians came from higher socio-economic classes and had higher levels of education compared to their birth cohort
OVM7 TIL Aladdin is actually supposed to be Chinese.
KdrR TIL that the process of getting torn apart by a black hole is called Spaghettification
grMZL TIL that people in the Medieval era shared their bed with the entire family and even the occasional overnight visitor - only the very rich could afford more than one bed and poor people just slept on piles of cloth/hay on the floor.
D1gxV TIL: A Prodigy named Taylor Wilson built a working nuclear reactor in a garage when he was just 14 years old.