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TIL that having your alarm go off more than once in the morning doesn’t “slowly wake you up”, but actually makes it harder by causing you to restart the deep sleep cycle over and over again each time you hit snooze

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b9G99 TIL that the Republic of Vanuatu (on a small Pacific island) has an underwater post office, and a post box on the rim of an active volcano
XERjD TIL: In 1996, a man broke into a radio station in New Zealand held the staff hostage and made them play Kermit's Rainbow Connection non stop.
N7G6E TIL the reason why chocolate is so comforting for us, is probably that the ratio 2g sugar to 1g fat is only naturally occuring in breastmilk.
8eQVP TIL that pronghorn is the only animal that has branching horns and sheds them annually.
0w6lA TIL, despite posing as a neutral country, Switzerland helped US and German intelligence services in gathering classified communications by selling rigged encoding devices to more than 120 governments.