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TIL for most of history people have had two periods of sleep each night, with the time in between being perhaps the most calm and relaxing part of their lives.

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kMEg TIL that the reason we have access to so much free online porn, is mostly because of a man named Fabian Thylmann, who bought up many of the paid pornography sites and made them free; gaining revenue through ads instead.
PYD6n TIL that the 1st doctor to discover that doctors should wash their hands before performing surgery was ridiculed for suggesting that doctors were causing their own patients harm. He was ostracized and exiled from the medical community until his death.
Z8OjY TIL that Napoleon was of average height for his era and that his reputation as a short man was largely spread through the works of British satirical cartoonist James Gillray. His satire was so effective that Napoleon once said that Gillray "did more than all the armies of Europe to bring me down."
4kJmN TIL the under construction Medong Hydropower Station in China is projected to produce more energy than the total energy consumption of the UK.
kjp4 TIL that Alabama didn’t overturn their ban on interracial marriage until the year 2000.