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TIL Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to

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yVkGe TIL that Kentucky and West Virginia are tied for the most sleep-deprived U.S. states, both with 49% of adults reporting insufficient sleep (less than 7 hours nightly on average).
p8pNQ TIL during the Roaring 20's, the average American consumed 72 sticks of butter per year. Fast forward to 1992, and that number dropped to 4 sticks per year.
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40Zg TIL that due to a now banned fertility treatment, there are 30-50 people in the world that each have three biological parents.
wL10J TIL about Shigeru Yokosawa, a sixty-year-old hospital admin who sacrificed his life by, in the face of an approaching tsunami, rushing to retrieve the hospital's satellite phone. The phone he saved became his colleagues' only lifeline to the outside world after the disaster.