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TIL: About 30% of people are naturally "night owls," a preference known as a chronotype, which is largely genetic and is not due to a lack of discipline. Forcing a night owl to adhere to an early schedule can lead to chronic sleep deprivation and associated health problems.

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DLVg TIL that a woman driving to a Dave Matthews concert stopped to help a motorcyclist with a flat tire, who turned out to be Dave Matthews. She and her boyfriend got front row seats, backstage passes, and Matthews took them to dinner afterwords.
D1nQr TIL that some unmanned spacecraft don’t have colour cameras because they get a higher resolution if it’s black and white and because less information had to be transmitted, thus saving the space crafts power supply and is significantly deceases the time it takes to transmit the data back to earth.
yVnPw TIL the Irish language has three counting systems: one for math, another for humans, and another for non-humans.
Rv9l TIL Polish composer André Tchaikowsky donated his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company in hopes that it would be used as a prop for the skull of Yorick. In 2008, the skull was used in a series of performances of Hamlet at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
E1Gx TIL: Orgasms provide multiple health benefits, including lowering your risk of prostate cancer. Why would you participate in “No Fap September”?