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TIL Pain tolerance is reduced by sleep deprivation.

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womPY TIL: Ruth Wilson played her real-life grandmother in the BBC drama Mrs Wilson. Alison Wilson was the third of four wives of former MI6 officer Alexander Wilson. After his death in 1963, Alison discovered another wife of her husband's. Alison died in 2005 without knowing he had had two further wives.
vPZmL TIL: that Otto Von Bismarck managed a posthumous snub of Wilhelm II, by having his own sarcophagus inscribed with the words, “A loyal German servant of Emperor Wilhelm I”.
Eop0 TIL a city in Sweden uses light therapy in bus stops to combat depression during winter when 19 hours of the day are darkness
8eLW8 TIL an artificial heart is only temporary, implanted to keep patients alive until they can receive a heart transplant
wonpW TIL I learn about underwater logging (e.g., after flooding a forested valley for a dam project) and that there are harvester robots like the Sawfish Harvester that were invented exclusively for this kind of operation