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TIL: According to the American Sleep Apnea Association "We should feel refreshed and alert upon awakening and not need a day time nap to get us through the day"

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oRVeo TIL that the formal name for the pee hole is the urinary meatus. It is the same in females and males.
rkld TIL that Alice Walton, heir to the Wal-Mart fortune and one of the richest people in the world, has had a history of reckless collisions. Her latest DWI arrest was expunged after the Texas trooper who arrested her was mysteriously suspended, and the statute of limitations was allowed to expire.
Jrg1 TIL A Chinese mathematical genius who had won a gold medal in the International Maths Olympiad denied a full Scholarship to MIT, and chose to become a monk in a Buddhist Monastery
77VX TIL Petrichor is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil. The scent is from water interacting with plant oils.
ANd8l TIL US Postal Inspector and Anti-Vice activist Anthony Comstock used his position to attack "obscene" books and birth control. He boasted he was responsible for 4,000 arrests, while biographers have attributed 15 suicides to Comstock's persecutions.