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Today I learned that 1 billion people in the world suffer from sleep disordered breathing.

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P74Z TIL For the last 30 years EVERY member of Congress has received monthly copies of Hustler Magazine.
K1NG TIL of “Green Boots” - an unidentified corpse that every climber who attempts the Northwest ridge route of Mount Everest passes.
XEvMQ TIL that cats are liquid. They are quite flexible because they are attached by muscles, not bones. Because of this, they can fit into containers.
9yWp TIL Gestalt psychologist Kurt Koffka originally said “The whole is other than the sum of the parts” but is often incorrectly translated as “greater” rather than “other”. Koffka firmly corrected students saying “This is not a principle of addition. The whole has an independent existence.”
yQy6V TIL that LA libraries started "The Great Read Away" program that allows kids to read books to clear their late fees. In the first six months of the program over 3,500 previously "locked accounts" had been cleared, and now 80% of parents are more likely to let their kids go to the library.