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TIL moderate sleep deprivation impairs performance to a point of legal drunkeness

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eWLg TIL that a professor of medical psychology in New York started hearing a voice in her head in 1965. Her colleague encouraged her to write down what it said. The voice produced 3 volumes of “spiritual psychology,” some of which is written in iambic pentameter.
nW86B TIL most Little Rascals episodes from the 1930s were heavily edited in the 1970s to remove jokes about race, women, disabilities, children, the elderly, and violence.
Rdgj TIL that Donald Glover’s twitter account used to be @donglover
Wk5XL TIL that crocodiles and alligators are more closely related to birds than they are to lizards or snakes.
BgGjk TIL about the Egypt national cricket team. Active between 1909 and WWII, it was a team of expats and soldiers stationed in Egypt, with only a single native Egyptian playing for it.