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TIL death to sleep deprivation may have a causal link with the accumulation of molecules called Reactive Oxidative Species (ROS) in the gut, though we're not yet sure why it builds up in the first place.

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rRXYd TIL Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Roger Waters all have declared that John Prine is among their all time favorite song writers. Cash said he listens to Prime when he wants to get into a song writing mood, and Dylan claimed no one could write true to life characters like Prine could.
wLRMY TIL 50 Cent tragically lost his mother when he was 8 years old. His mother, Sabrina Jackson, died in 1983 in a 'mysterious fire'. 50 Cent said in an interview, "Someone put something in her drink and turned the gas on."
N7088 TIL measuring 4086mi^2, the largest salt pan Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is so flat that rain can’t drain, creating the world’s largest natural mirror. It’s also 5x better for satellite calibration than the surface of the ocean, and an elevation measurement accuracy of 0.8 inches
e0lYJ TIL well over half of all know Egytian obelisks were plundered over the millennia. Most were taken by the Romans, who moved 13 to Italy, with 8 in Rome alone.
jNAX TIL that the top tax rate in the US, while at 35% now, used to be above 90% in the 1950s and ‘60s.