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TIL For those who have trouble sleeping researchers say that 1 week of camping, without electronics, resets our biological body clock and synchronizes our melatonin hormones with sunrise and sunset.

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epk04 TIL about Jean Meslier, a French Catholic priest who was discovered, upon his death, to have written a book-length philosophical essay promoting atheism and materialism.
l7gV TIL Spiders can travel in jet streams at altitudes exceeding 16000 ft above sea level
R7eo7 Today I learned Nicolas Cage turned down the lead role of Shrek because he didn’t want to be an ogre
1MMW TIL The United States Defense Budget of $698 Billion is More Than the Next Seventeen Nations Combined
vkOD TIL There were ancient stone tablets in Japan’s recent tsunami struck areas with inscriptions “Do not build your homes below this point!”