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TIL of a term 'Revenge Bedtime Procrastination' which is "a phenomenon in which people who don’t have much control over their daytime life refuse to go to sleep early in order to regain some sense of freedom during late night hours."

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7eYp TIL “Snozzberry” is a euphemism for penis that Roald Dahl had used in one of his adult novels.
N7GeP TIL of J.I. Rodale, an early supporter of organic eating and farming. While on the Dick Cavett show, at the age of 72, Rodale said "I've never felt better in my life" and "I'm going to live to be 100..." Minutes later Rodale died on the couch while the next guest was being interviewed by Cavett.
ANPGn TIL that the earliest known physical evidence of tea was discovered in 2016 in the mausoleum of Chinese Emperor Jing of Han in Xi'an, indicating that tea was drunk by Han dynasty emperors as early as the second century BC (2,200+ years ago).
E16b7 TIL about 1st Lt. Mary Louise Hawkins who assisted with the evacuation of patients in WWII. Her plane was forced to make an emergency landing and a patient's trachea was severed by debris. Mary went full MacGyver and managed to keep the man alive with found items for 19 hrs until help arrived.
j9NQ TIL that in China and many other east asian countries,when you are born, you are considered one year old and everyone’s age increases one year on New Year’s. Age is incremented on the beginning of a solar term instead of a birth date.