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TIL: The Barrett Model M82 is the official rifle of the State of Tennessee

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j6kYp TIL a study involving 75K adults compared the participants' preferred sleep timing (known as chronotype) with their actual sleep behavior & found regardless of one's preferred bedtime, everyone benefitted from turning in early. Being up late is not good for your mental health (suggested 1am bedtime)
YZ1v TIL in 2010, a flash mob of black youth showed up at the Iowa State Fair, yelled “It’s beat whitey night!”, and proceeded to assault white fairgoers at random.
x6ARb TIL that there are 15 different plug styles.
ePk4 TIL that Google prefers dogs to cats. Their code of conduct specifically states that they are a dog company.
pY1PN TIL At one point Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' and Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' were being serialized in the same Russian magazine