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[TIL] Our ancestors didn't sleep like us; they slept twice every night.

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lger TIL motor neuron disease has been on the increase for over ten years, and scientists think pesticides, pollutants and paints are to blame.
6EJXl TIL an Italian man found wandering Edinburgh claiming to have no memory of who he was or how he got there admitted to faking amnesia to avoid his nagging mother-in-law. His disappearance from Pisa raised suspicion when online searches 'how to disappear' and 'how to fake memory loss' were discovered.
rGeo TIL The Sustainable Dance Floor uses the kinetic energy produced when people move as a source of energy that is then converted into electricity. People will be able to generate their own energy to illuminate the space around them, just by walking over SEF modules.
e0G9D TIL that the term “cervical” does not only refer to the cervix of a woman, but is also used to allude to a person’s neck and several other “neck-like passages” within the body (see comment).
M7ZMb TIL: That Quentin Tarantino kept the only copy of the third act of the script to 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' in a safe to prevent it from being prematurely released. Brad Pitt later revealed that the only other copy of the script was burned by Tarantino.