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TIL there is a disease known as "fatal insomnia" which prevents you from ever falling asleep. This leads to hallucinations, panic attacks and eventually, death.

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Wrod TIL that in 1965 at age 90 and with no heirs Jeanne Calment sold her apartment to a lawyer on a contingency contract. The lawyer, aged 47, agreed to pay her a monthly sum of 2,500 francs until she died. She lived to 122, and he ended up paying her >$180,000; more than double the apartment’s value.
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