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TIL the first ever honorary member of the Harlem Globetrotters was Henry Kissinger

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Evyo TIL modern people get similar amounts of sleep to people from pre-industrial times, but the extra exposure to artificial light means we sleep worse
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4xKJ TIL A species of cavefish in Thailand has been documented walking and climbing waterfalls in a manner similar to four-footed creatures such as salamanders, in a find researchers call “huge” in evolutionary terms.
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