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TIL hitting snooze on your alarm can make you more tired than if you had gotten up right away. Especially if you purposefully set it early with the intention of hitting snooze.

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D1lKg TIL that the first "phone book" contained no phone numbers and wasn't a book. It was a sheet with the names of 50 people and businesses in New Haven, CT that owned a telephone
EV9w TIL the native americans planted corn, beans, and squash together so that they would benefit eachother. The corn provides a structure for the beans to climb. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil that the other plants utilize, and the squash spreads along the ground preventing weeds
E17bX TIL that How Scientists Have Uncovered The 90,000-Year-Old Hybrid Of Two Extinct Human Species
7rOYL TIL French horticulturist Francis Meilland developed The Peace Rose between 1935-1939. He sent cuttings to friends in Italy, Turkey, Germany, and The U.S to protect it. It is said that it was sent to the US on last plane available before the German invasion.
69pE7 Today I learned the northern British Columbia locality of Premier is only accessible through Hyder, Alaska, which itself is only accessible from Stewart, BC. This makes Premier, in Canada, only accessible through a portion of the US that is itself only accessible from Canada.