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

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LQXbV TIL Irish monks invented the Catholic practice of confessing to a priest and performing penance in private. Prior to this, confessions and penance were done publicly.
JYjxl TIL when the Nintendo 64 was released in North America on September 29th 1996, a mere two games were available at launch: Pilot Wings 64, and Super Mario 64. There would not be another release for over a month.
WkNEd TIL of Bob Fletcher: he took care of the farms of three Japanese-American families as they were interned in World War 2. By maintaining their farms and paying their taxes and mortgages, he ensured the families didn't lose everything. He was finally shot at for supporting these families.
WkAQ8 TIL Charles Havlat was the last American soldier killed in WW2 just minutes after German and Allied officers had negotiated a ceasefire and a few hours before the German army’s surrender.
kJVb1 TIL Taoism merged with Zen Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shinto to create Japan’s philosophy that wasn’t a philosophy: bushido. The version of bushido that dominates include honor, ritual suicide, and self-sacrifice