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TIL Incubators Were Once Displayed in Freak Shows to Save Premature Babies

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XE9RD TIL that people with a stutter can often sing without difficulty. Blues artists B.B. King and John Lee Hooker, despite having significant stuttering problems as children, both sang without a stutter. Hooker even wrote a song about his experiences called "Stuttering Blues."
jNlEv TIL that there is an alive 'castrato'. Javier Medina was chemically castrated due to leukemia at the age of 8 years, later in life he began his musical formation in choirs becoming the first castrato the the world has heard in almost a century.
GYQeQ TIL that just over a century ago, people preferred to sleep in two shorter shifts at night rather than just have one long sleep.
5xJB TIL that on average Greeks work for more hours than any other nationality in Europe.
OoEv1 TIL: All Rainbows are full circles