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TIL - For millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning.

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yVBbl TIL that osteo-odonto keratoprosthesis (OOKP) is a procedure that uses a patient’s own tooth implanted in their eye to craft a support structure for an artificial cornea to restore vision.
N7j71 TIL that Fibonacci Numbers were created to model Rabbit Population.
jlLn TIL back in 2007 a Company Named Their MP3 Player the “I.Beat Blaxx”
DOWg TIL the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame removed an exhibit containing the ashes of Alan Freed, the DJ who coined the term “rock ‘n’ roll” and staged the first-ever rock concert, and replaced it with a public display of Beyonce’s leotards.
ADo8x TIL of the Giant Pyrosome; a “free-floating, colonial tunicate that is made of thousands of identical clones, together forming a hollow cylindrical structure that can be 60 feet (18 m) long and wide enough for a person to enter”